different tongue hymned the strains of his miracles, caused the empyrean to ring out with the sweet sound. And so it will for all eternity. As though the skies uttered felicitations with the heavenly tongues of the angels and moons and his own ascension; and the earth lauded his miracles with the tongues of its stones, trees, and animals; and the atmosphere gave the glad tidings of his prophet- hood through the signs of the jinns and the shady clouds; and the past betokened through the prognostications of the prophets and soothsayers the dawn of that sun of truth; and the present, that is, the Era of Bliss, held up as witness to his prophethood the mighty revolution that occurred in the character of the Arabs and the almost instantaneous emergence of absolute civilisation out of absolute primitivity; and the future welcomed his propitious arrival through its events and the stages of its precise sciences, and offered thanks with its wise tongue for his guidance; and humankind proclaimed through its seekers after truth, and particularly through the articulate tongue of Muhammad (UWBP) himself, being a proof of himself, that he had come from the Truth; and the All-Glorious One recited through the eloquent tongue of His Qur'an the decree of the Unlettered Prophet's messengership. And so they do all recite and declaim it.

Verse:

All the lions of the world are bound to this chain;

How could the fox chew through it by cunning? [^1]

[^1]:Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī, Maktūbāt-i Rabbānī, i, nos. 27, 58.