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every action or enterprise, are the most sincere expressions
of the purified Muslim spirit impressed and inebriate with
the “Love of God” that transcends and excels every other
love. These ejaculations are not artificial or hypocritical
expressions in the mouths of Muslims, but they are the
prayer and the praise of the baptized spirit that resides in
his body. Moreover, if a Christian and a Jew are imbued
with the same faith and devotion, and if their soul does
effuse those expressions that the spirit of a Muslim does,
then he is a Muslim though he knows it not.

(c) The baptismal sanctification, which the
“Sibghatu’llah,” inspires in the Spirit of a Unitarian
Muslim, besides faith and love, is a total submission
and resignation to the holy will of God. This absolute
submission emanates not only from faith and love,
but also from a holy fear and from a deep respect so
latent in the soul and spirit of every true believer.

Such are the principal characteristics of the spiritual
baptism, and nowhere are they manifest but among the
adherents of Islam. John the Baptist, Jesus Christ (pbtuhem)
and his apostles believed in, loved, and feared the same
Allah as every Muslim does according to the degree of
the divine grace and mercy. The Holy Spirit himself, too,
is a creature and he loves and fears the same Allah whom
you and I do.

2. The second mark of the spiritual baptism is
enlightenment. The true knowledge of Allah and His
will, so much as men are enabled to possess, can only
and exclusively be seen in Muslims. This knowledge
sparkles dazzlingly in the countenance and the general
behaviour of every Muslim. He may not comprehend
the essence and the person of God, just as a child cannot
understand the nature and the qualities of his parents; yet
a baby recognizes its mother among all other women. The
analogy is by far below the reality and the comparison