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The Highest Blessing: Allah's Good Pleasure 69

Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased
with Him. That is the Great Victory. (Surat al-
Ma'ida, 119)
The most striking expression of what believers feel when
they win Allah's good pleasure is that He will manifest Himself
to them in a way that they can see Him. This is impossible in

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In other words, the greatest possible blessing that believ-
ers can have is the deep sense of Allah's mercy and will. By
winning His good pleasure, they experience a joy and a happi-
ness that cannot be compared with any material blessing.
Actually, it is Allah's will that gives value to Paradise's
other blessings. The same blessings may exist on Earth to a
certain extent, but they have no meaning for believers as long
as they surpass the limits Allah established.
Believers should think carefully about this extremely im-
portant point. The real thing that gives a blessing its value is
something far beyond its intrinsic pleasure and delight, for its
real value lies in the fact that Allah "granted" it. Believers who