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WINDOWS
OPENED TO THE EXISTENCE AND UNITY OF
GOD FROM THE UNIVERSE AND HUMANITY
In the Name of
God, the Merciful, the
Compassionate.
We shall
show them Our signs in the
whole of the outer world and
in themselves, until it
becomes clear to them that it
is indeed the truth. Is it not
enough that your Lord is a
witness over all things?
(41:53)
A
parable to set out to reach God
Supposing a
miracle-displaying man wants to
build a big palace, first he lays
its foundations firmly according to
his purpose for building it. Next,
he divides it skillfully into
apartments and rooms. Then, he
furnishes those apartments and
rooms, and decorates them. After
that, he illuminates the palace with
electric lights. Further, in order
to show other skills of his and
demonstrate his continual bounty, he
makes additions, changes and
transformations in every wing and
apartment of the palace. Also, he
establishes a system to communicate
with every apartment and room, and
opening a window in each room, he
ensures that he can be seen in his
names and attributes.
Similarly-And God’s
is the highest comparison-the
Creator Who is beyond compare and
called by one thousand and one holy
Names like the Wise Ruler and the
Just Judge, willed to make that
palace of the universe, that tree of
creation, which is the macrocosm. He
laid in six days the foundations of
that palace, that tree, and built
the main body, with the principles
of His Wisdom and rules of His
eternal Knowledge. Dividing it into
higher and lower levels and
branches, He ramified and elaborated
it with the principles of His Decree
and Destiny. Then He formed and
organized creatures in groups,
families and species and ordered the
life of each with the principles of
His Art and Favoring. After that, He
adorned each thing and each world in
a way particular to it; for example,
He adorned the sky with stars, and
the earth with flowers. He
manifested His Names in those vast
arenas where His universal laws and
all-inclusive principles are in
force, and illuminated them.
Following that, with the
manifestations of His Names the Most
Merciful and the Most Compassionate,
He came to the special aid of man
who cried at the pressure of those
universal laws. That means, within
His universal and all-inclusive
principles, He has special favors
and help and particular
manifestations which encourage every
being to turn to Him any time it
desires and ask Him for help for any
of its needs. Also, in order that
His existence and Unity may be
evident to beings, He opened windows
on Himself from all apartments, all
levels of creation and worlds, all
groups of existence and all
individuals, and all things, and
left a telephone in every heart.
Now, referring
those innumerable windows to the
all-comprehensive Divine Knowledge,
the discussion of all of which is
beyond our capacity, in a happy
correspondence with the thirty-three
repetitions of the phrases of
glorifying and praising God and that
of affirming His Greatness after
each prescribed prayer, we shall be
content with a brief allusion to
thirty-three of them, which
originate from the verses of the Qur’an.
The
needs and demands of every thing
are properly met in due time from
somewhere unknown and unexpected
We are clearly
witnessing that all things, the
living ones particularly, have
numerous different needs and
multi-form demands. Those needs and
demands of theirs are properly met
in due time from somewhere unknown
and unexpected, which it is
impossible for them to reach by
themselves. They are unable
themselves to meet even the least of
those needs. For an example,
consider yourself: consider the many
needs you have to satisfy your
external and inner senses and organs
which you are unable to procure. You
may compare all other living beings
to yourself.
Thus, all those
needs and demands and their
gratification point, individually
and as a whole, to the existence of
an Absolutely Necessary Being behind
the veil of the Unseen and His
Unity, and show Him to the mind with
His Names the All-Munificent, the
Most Compassionate, the Trainer and
Upbringer, and the Provider and
Organizer.
A
countenance proves itself to be an
extremely brilliant stamp of Divine
Oneness
While with
respect to actual existence and
individualization, things have an
infinite variety of potential forms,
each is given, all at once and
wisely, a particular and extremely
well-ordered countenance equipped
with external and inner senses with
perfect wisdom, which bears a
special mark distinguishing the
individual from all the other
members of its species. The
countenance therefore proves itself
to be an extremely brilliant stamp
of Divine Oneness. Like each face
bearing witness in hundreds of ways
to the existence of an All-Wise
Maker and pointing to His Unity,
that stamp of Unity which the faces
display as a whole, shows to the eye
of the mind that it is a seal
belonging to the Creator of all
things.
Every
things is given a particular form
with perfect measure and order
The huge army of
plants and animals on the earth,
which have hundreds of thousands of
species (Among those species are
some whose numbers in a year exceed
the whole of the members of mankind
from the time of Adam to the end of
the world) are each given with
perfect measure and order and
without any confusion and
forgetting, a particular form and
garment and particular provision and
‘weaponry’, and each is trained
and demobilized in a way particular
to itself. This is a stamp of the
One of Unity, a stamp as brilliant
as the sun, about which there can be
no doubt. Who other than the One
with limitless Power, an
all-encompassing Knowledge, and an
infinite Wisdom, can dare to have a
hand in that administration, which
is infinitely wonderful? For if one
unable to administer and train the
whole of those species and races all
together, which exist one mixed with
the other, were to interfere with
one of them, he would certainly
cause a confusion. Whereas, as is
stated in the verse, Turn your
gaze again, do you see any fissure?
(67:3), there is no sign of any void
or confusion. That means no one is
able to have a hand in His creation.
The
prayers of every thing especially
done in the tongue
of potential and disposition are
answered
The prayers which
all seeds utter in the tongue of
their disposition and potentiality,
all animals, in the tongue of their
natural needs, and all those
compelled, in the tongue of
compulsion, are all answered.
As each of those
innumerable prayers, all evidently
answered, bears witness to and
points to the necessary existence
and Unity of God, all of them
evidently point to an
All-Compassionate, All-Munificent
and All-Answering Creator as a whole
and on a larger scale.
Despite
coming into existence as if all
of a sudden every being is given
perfectly beautiful and all the
equipment necessary for living
We see that
things, especially living ones, come
into existence as if all of a
sudden. While things coming into
existence all of a sudden out of a
simple substance should be simple
and coarse and without any art, they
are created so finely as requiring
many skills, and embellished so
carefully and delicately as
demanding a long time, and
ornamented so artistically as
needing numerous tools, and made so
elaborately as necessitating lots of
materials.
So, the beautiful
form given to each and all things
all at once and the wonderful
artistry manifested on them testify
to the necessary existence of an
All-Wise Maker and point to the
Unity of His Lordship. Also, through
their form and the artistry they
display, things as a whole point in
a most brilliant way to a
Necessarily Existent Being Who is
infinitely powerful and wise.
In
the creation of the heavens and
the earth; in the alternation of
night and day; in the sailing of
the ships through the ocean for
the benefit of mankind; in the
water which God sends down from
the sky and with which He
revives the earth after its
death, and dispersing over it
all kinds of beasts; in the
ordinance of the winds and
clouds that are driven between
earth and sky: are signs for
people who have sense.
(2:164)
This verse,
which demonstrates the necessary
existence of God and His Unity, is
an extremely large window through
which one of God’s Greatest
Names is seen.
The following
is what the verse means in brief.
All
of the worlds situated at
the higher and lower levels
of the universe point to the
same result in different
tongues: it is the Lordship
of a single Wise Maker.
Just
as the well-organized and
systematic movements in the
heavens ending in great
results demonstrate the
existence and Unity of a
Majestic All-Powerful One
and the perfection of His
Lordship, so also the
tremendous changes on the
earth such as those
witnessed in seasons,
resulting in great,
comprehensive benefits, show
the necessity of that
Majestic All-Powerful One’s
Unity and the perfection of
His Lordship.
All
the animals on land and sea
are fed through perfect
mercy, and given various
forms with perfect wisdom,
and they are equipped with
multi-form senses and
faculties with perfect
Lordship. As each testifies
to the existence of that
Majestic All-Powerful One
and points to His Unity, so
also as a whole they
demonstrate on a large scale
the grandeur of His Divinity
and the perfection of His
Lordship.
Similarly,
the well-formed plants in
gardens and orchards and the
ornate flowers they produce,
and the well-proportioned
fruits replacing the flowers
and the rich embellishments
the fruits display, all bear
witness to the existence of
that All-Wise Maker and
point to His Unity
individually, and they show
in a splendid way the grace
of His Mercy and the
perfection of His Lordship
collectively.
Again,
just as the drops sent from
the atmosphere and charged
with important purposes,
necessary consequences and
benefits, demonstrate to
their number the necessary
existence of that All-Wise
Maker and His Unity and the
perfection of His Lordship,
so also all the mountains on
the earth and the various
minerals deposited in them
for various purposes show,
as firmly as the mountains,
the existence and Unity of
that Wise Maker and the
perfection of His Lordship.
Also,
just as the various,
beautiful flowers decorating
hills and plains
individually attest the
necessary existence of an
All-Wise Maker and point to
His Unity and collectively
show the majesty of His
Sovereignty and the
perfection of His Lordship,
so too, the
well-proportioned shapes and
positions of the leaves on
trees and herbs and their
rapturous, systematic
movements demonstrate to
their number the necessary
existence and Unity of that
All-Wise Maker and the
perfection of His Lordship.
All
growing bodies, which have
innately been equipped with
various members and systems
to grow, begin to move in an
ordered manner at the time
of growth and are directed
toward yielding fruits. As
each of them testifies to
the necessity of that
All-Wise Maker’s existence
and points to His Unity, so
also as a whole they
demonstrate on a very large
scale the comprehensiveness
of His Power, the
inclusiveness of His Wisdom,
the beauty of His Art, and
the perfection of His
Lordship. Also, to establish
in animal bodies their souls
and spirits with perfect
wisdom, and to equip them
with various systems with
perfect order, and to
mobilize them for various
services and purposes with
perfect wisdom-all this
bears witness and points to
the necessity of that
All-Wise Maker’s existence
and His Unity to the number
of animals or even of their
members and systems.
Collectively, all those acts
show His Mercy and the
perfection of His Lordship
in a most brilliant way.
All
Divine inspirations coming
to man to instruct him in
all kinds of knowledge and
truths, and to animals to
teach them how to procure
their needs, suggest the
existence of a Most
Compassionate Lord and point
to His Lordship. Also, like
the rays of light coming
forth from the eye and
collecting all visible
objects into it, all the
external and inner senses
function each as a key to a
different world. This too
demonstrates, as brightly as
the sun, the necessity of
the existence of that
All-Wise Maker, the
All-Knowing Originator, the
Most Compassionate Creator,
the All-Munificent Provider,
and His Unity and the
perfection of His Lordship.
Thus, the huge
window consisting of twelve
openings in twelve places shows
through a light of truth of twelve
colors the Oneness and Singleness
of Almighty God and the perfection
of His Lordship.
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