[Hundreds of lhe innumerable fruits, particular and universal, of the sacred tree of belief, one of which is Paradise, anoihur, eternal happiness, and another, the vision of Gwl. have been set forth with proofs and explanations in the Risale-i Nur. Referring further explanation of them to Siracii'n-Nur {The Illuminating Lamp), therefore, here shall he set out a few examples of its particular and special fruits, rather than its universal pillars.]
One of these: One day while reciting in a supplication: "O My Sus¬tained In veneration of Gabriel, Michael, israfil, and Azra'il, and through their intercession, preserve me from the evil of men and jinn," I experienced an exceedingly pleasant and consoling state of mind on mentioning the name of Агга'іІ, which generally makes peop/e tremble in fear. "All praise be to God'." I exlaimed, and began to feel earnest love for him. I shall point out extremely briefly only one particular fruit of the many of this particular aspect of the pillar of belief in the angels.
Another: Everyone's most precious possession, over which they most tremble, is their spirit. I felt sure that to surrender it to a strong and trust¬worthy hand thereby preserving it from being lost and annihilated and from aimlessness, afforded a profound joy. Then the angels who record men's aclions came to mind; 1 saw thai !hey yielded numerous sweef fruits like the previous one.
Another: Everyone tries earnestly to preserve through writing, poetry, or even the cinema, a worthwhile saying or deed, in order to immortalize it. Particularly if the deeds produce everlasting fruits in Paradise, they are even more anxious to preserve them. The recording angels hovering over men's shoulders so that they may show their deeds in eternal vistas and continually gain their owners reward, seemed so agreeable to me, ľ cannot describe it.
Then, when 'the worldly' had isolated me from everything to do with social life and kept me from all my books, friends, assistants, and the things that console me, and I was being crushed by the desolation of exile and my empty world was tumbling down all around me, one of the many fruits of belief in the angels came to my assistance. It cheered up the uni¬verse and my world, filling іі with angels and spirit beings, and making my world Jaugb for joy.41 li showed too that the worlds of lhe people of mis¬guidance weep in desolation, emptiness, and darkness. While enjoying the pleasures of this fruit, my imagination plucked one of the numerous fruits of belief in the prophets, which resembles it, and lasted it. Then suddenly my belief that all the prophets of the past were as though living, and my assent to them, lit up those times and made my belief universal and expanded it, and set thousands of signatures to their teachings concerning belief in the Prophet of the End of Time (PBUH), silencing the Satans.
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41. Miisnad, v, 173; at-Tnmttlhi, Zuhd, 9; ìbn Maja, Zuhd, 19.