dence has several aspects to it, the sign strengthens considerably. And especially if within a hundred possibilities two things correspond fully in a way particular to them, the resulting sign becomes a clear indication that the coincidence has occurred through intention and will and for a purpose, allowing no possibility of chance.
It was just like that on the Holy Night of the Ascension: the coinciding of the divine mercy of rain with the Nights of Regâib and the Ascension and only on those two nights and neither before nor after, and its coinciding with a time of extreme need, and occurring at the same time as the reading, writing out, and publication of the treatise about the Ascension (Miraciye Risalesi), [^22] and those two holy nights corresponding with each other in several respects, and the rain's falling although it was unseasonal with extraordinary rolling and rumbling thunder and indescribable reverberations of the earth in a way that both threatened and consoled their cries, and its coinciding perfectly with the believers' search for solace in their despair and their seeking moral strength in the face of their weakness and the whispering doubts caused by the assaults of misguidance, and as a rebuke to those who behave disrespectfully towards the marks of Islam and those two nights. The universe and heavens and atmosphere showed their respect with that abundant rain so that anyone with even a grain of fairness would know that there were an intention and will in the matter, and a particular instance of grace and mercy for the believers, leaving no possibility for chance or coincidence.
[^22]:The Thirty-First Word; see, The Words (Istanbul: Sözler Publications, 2013), 583-612. [Tr.]
That is to say, the reality of the Ascension is a miracle of Muhammad (UWBP) and his greatest instance of wonder-working, and just as his rising to the skies on the staircase of the Ascension demonstrated His (UWBP) eminence and stature to the dwellers of the heavens, so the Ascension this year displayed a wonder and marvel and demonstrated to the earth and to the people of this country the esteem and respect in which he (UWBP) is held by the universe. ∗∗∗