Help from the Holy Spirit

Argument 5:

You will come across numerous such verses in which it is mentioned that God helps His chosen servants through a special spirit of Him, particularly the verses: 2:87, 253; 5:110; 16:102; 58:22. In the first three verses is mentioned that God used to help Hazrat Isa through the Holy Spirit, in the fourth is mentioned that the Holy Qur’an was revealed to the blessed heart of the Prophet through the Holy Spirit and in the fifth is mentioned that God helps His party, i.e. the true mu’mins, through a special spirit of Him. I think that sometimes questions are very useful in order to understand the subject better, so let us discuss this in the form of questions and answers.

Question: Is it correct to hold the concept that the Holy Spirit or any other special spirit comes from the presence of God, without the mediation of the Holy Prophet and helps mu’mins, while the Prophet is God’s mercy for the whole world? 

Answer: No, it is not correct. Such a spirit comes through the Universal mercy, namely, the Prophet and through his prayer. Rather, a secret should be disclosed here that the Holy Prophet is the centre of God’s mercy and that the angels of mercy are the rays of the light of his mercy. For the fountainhead of this light is not inanimate and irrational like that of the external and material sun. It has the Holy Spirit and the Perfect Intellect. When this light illumines or casts light in the heart of a mu’min, it has the particles of spirit and intellect. This fact or event is expressed in the language of tanzil (exoteric aspect of the Qur’an) that a mu’min or mu’mins were helped by a special spirit which was of God.

In this book, wherever it is mentioned that the mu’mins were helped by the descent of the angels, it does not mean that this happens without or independently of the light of Prophethood and Imamat. It means that there is a great centre of the unity of the angels and spirits, which is called Nur-i Muhammadi or the Light of Muhammad (s.a.s.). And it is this light which has the rank of eminence of Divine closeness. Otherwise, God is free from the concept of time and space.

Thus

“wa-ayyadahum bi-rãhin minhu (and He helped them through a spirit of Him)” (58:22)

means that God helped them through the Light of Mustafa and Murtaza.