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human beings are elevated, universal, and everlasting. The various sorts of recurrent diurnal and annual resurrections of many species hint at and point to a general, personal resurrection of man; indeed, they testify to it.

8. The unlimited potentialities included in the essence of man's spirit, and the unlimited abilities contained in those potentialities, and the endless desires arising from those abilities, and the infinite hopes resulting from those endless desires, and the limitless thoughts and ideas born of those infinite hopes are hands stretched out towards eternal happiness, which is beyond this Manifest World, and are eyes gazing at it, being turned towards it.

9. The mercy of the All-Wise Maker, the All-Merciful and Compassionate One, will bestow on the human race everlasting happiness, to make His bounties bounty and save them from being an affliction and deliver the universe from the anguish of eternal separation. For if divine mercy were not to bestow everlasting happiness, the chief of all bounties, the bounties would turn into rancour and be transformed into an affliction and one would have to deny the mercy the existence of which is indubitably established by the testimony of the whole universe.

Brother! Consider the various bounties of love, compassion, and affection, then think of everlasting separation and unending parting! Love becomes a grievous calamity. This means that eternal separation cannot confront love. Everlasting happiness will deal everlasting separation such a blow, it will despatch it to eternal nonexistence !

10. The five Ways set out above together with the tongue of our Prophet (UWBP), whose truthfulness and veracity has been proven, are the keys to everlasting happiness within the treasury of bodily resurrection.

11. The Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition, the miraculous inimitability of which has been proved in seven respects for thirteen centuries, is the discloser of bodily resurrection, and is its revealer and initiator.

4–6 October 2026 · Istanbul

13th International Bediuzzaman Symposium

Visit the symposium website for the programme, papers and registration.