Foreword

THE GLORIFICATION OF GOD reality of God, the Omnipotent, is revealed to him. He attains realization of God with perfect conviction. He subsequently experiences an intellectual storm in his mind. He starts uttering words of high acknowledgement of God.This is the inner realization becoming articulate. This is the event which has been described as the glorification of the Lord. This is to discover the Creator through the creation. This is to discover the Sought One by the seeker, this is to discover the Omnipotent by the totally helpless. This discovery can be differently described as the moment when a human being discovers his Lord. He is then in a position to see God without seeing Him, to experience God’s closeness in spite of the immeasurable distance separating them. The Glorification of God is the explosion of Godrealization taking place in the mind of a soul who has discovered God. In the Quran, God-realization is called maarifah. When one realizes God in the real sense, it becomes a part and parcel of one’s existence. When this happens, all those high and noble manifestations expressed in such words as love, gratitude, and remembrance of God come into evidence within a believer. The Quran says that “those who believe love God most.” (2:165) Faith in God is