tion. He has clothed us in the garment of existence and bestowed on us our faculties and capabilities, which are our capital and felicity. We companies of men are at present busy preparing for everlasting happiness. Then later we shall depart all together for the bodily resurrection of the dead and shall head for eternity."

So science (hikmet)! Don't quibble or talk nonsense! Relate exactly what you have seen and heard!

The Third Aim

The Third Aim

This is the bodily resurrection of the dead. Yes, there would be no creation without it; it would be futile. The resurrection is indeed true and right, and its clearest proof is Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace).

#### Introduction

Introduction

The Perspicuous Qur'an has set forth bodily resurrection so clearly it has left not the slightest doubt concerning it. Here, as far as we can, we are going to point out several of its aims and stopping places in order to expound its proofs.

#### The First Aim

THE FIRST AIM: The following are truthful witnesses to bodily resurrection and true, verifiable proofs of it: the perfect order in the universe, the total wisdom in creation, the absence of futility in the world, the absence of waste in the innate disposition of things, the induction established by all the sciences, the repeated resurrections of a sort in many realms of beings such as the alternations of the days and years, the essence of the human capabilities, the infinite hopes of human beings, the All-Wise Maker's mercy, the veracious Messenger's (UWBP) tongue, and the expositions of the Inimitable Qur'an.

Stopping Place and Indication

1. If there were no everlasting happiness, the [cosmic] order would consist only of a flimsy and fatuous form. All its non-