"I have seen you," he went on, regardless of Michael's almost inaudible remarks, "I have seen you travelling on a long journey. I have seen many trials and many temptations for you. I have also seen you in the great Light. For you there is a treasure laid up, not only in heaven, but on earth, which will help you in the work which the clear voice counsels."
"This is strange," Michael said. "O my father, I am already greatly disturbed; I come to you for help."
"Do not fear, my son. God responds to and supplies the demands of human nature. He has willed that you should devote your life to His teachings."
"You forget, my father. I am not of your faith. I have not embraced
Islam."
"I have my message to deliver. I have seen what I have seen. Every religion which gives a true knowledge of God and directs in the most excellent way of His worship, is Islam."
"You have seen me giving my life to all that I feel to be most urgent in the life of all who know the truth?"
"I have seen you, by Allah's aid and by His bountiful mercy, accomplishing work which will bestow great blessing and peace upon your soul."
"I have thought much of all this," Michael said, "since we last met. The idea has never left me, yet I am puzzled. Why should I feel like this, when better men do not?"
"God, in His almighty word, has declared a higher aim of man's existence, O my son."
"Then why do I not better understand? I feel nothing but dissatisfaction, unfruitfulness."