The Sixth Proof

The Sixth Proof

The Ninth Truth of the Tenth Word

The Gate of God's bestowal of life and death,

The Manifestation of the Names of Eternally Living

and Self-Subsistent, and Giver of Life and Giver of Death.

Is it at all possible that the One who gives life to this vast dead and dry earth; who in so doing demonstrates His power by deploying more than three hundred thousand different forms of creation, each of them as remarkable as man; who further demonstrates in this deployment His all-embracing knowledge by the infinite distinctions and differentiations He makes in the complex intermingling of all of those forms; who directs the gaze of all His slaves to everlasting bliss by promising them resurrection in all of His heavenly decrees; who demonstrates the splendour of His dominicality by causing all of His creation to collaborate with one another, to revolve within the circle of His command and His will, to aid one another and be submitted to Him; who shows the importance He has given to man by creating him as the most comprehensive, the most precious and delicate, the most valued and valuable fruit on the tree of creation by addressing him without intermediary and subjugating all things to him; — is it at all possible that so Compassionate and Powerful a One, so Wise and All-Knowing a One, should not bring about resurrection; should not gather His creatures together or be unable to do so; should not restore man to life, or be unable to do so; should not be able to inaugurate His Supreme Court; should not be able to create Heaven and Hell? Nay, indeed, by no means is any of this possible.

Indeed, the Almighty Disposer of this world's affairs creates in every century, every year and every day, on the narrow and transient face of the globe, numerous signs, examples and indications of the Supreme Gathering and the Plain of Resurrection.

Thus in the gathering that takes place every spring we see that in the course of five or six days more than three hundred thousand different kinds of animal and plant are first gathered together and then dispersed. The roots of all the trees and plants, as well as some animals, are revived and restored