Know—may God support you—that a charismatic gift comes from the Real through His name the Beneficent (al-Barr), and belongs only to the righteous (al-abrār) among His servants: “a fitting recompense” [al-Nabaʾ 78:26]. Affinity calls for it, even if no request arises from the person upon whom it appears. It has two divisions: sensory and inward. The common people know only sensory charismatic gifts, such as speaking about what is in someone’s mind, reporting unseen matters past, present, and future, taking from created existence, walking on water, passing through the air, folding up the earth, becoming veiled from sight, and the immediate answering of supplication. The common people know only things like these as charismatic gifts.
(Inward Charismatic Gifts and Preservation of Revealed Law)
As for inward charismatic gifts, only the elect among God’s servants know them; the common people do not know this. They consist in the preservation of the courtesies of revealed law for a person; his being granted success in practicing noble character traits and avoiding their base counterparts; maintaining the performance of all obligations at their appointed times; hastening to good deeds; removing rancor, resentment toward people, envy, and bad opinion from his breast; purifying the heart of every blameworthy attribute and adorning it with watchfulness with every breath; observing God’s rights in himself and in things; examining his Lord’s traces within his heart; and attending to his breaths as they go out and come in, receiving them with courtesy when they arrive and sending them out clothed in the robe of presence.
In our view, all these are charismatic gifts
