Yes, there is no holder of sovereignty that does not reward those who obey him and punish the rebellious. So when the holder of an eternal sovereignty which is at the degree of absolute dominicality rewards those who form a relation with him through belief and submit to his decrees, and punishes rebellious disbelievers who deny his proud sovereignty, it will be in a manner befitting his mercy and beauty, his dignity and glory. Thus, the names Sustainer of All the Worlds and Just Monarch reply to our question.

Also, we see on the face of the earth as clearly as the sun, as daylight, a general mercy and all-embracing compassion and munificence. For example, every spring that mercy adorns all the fruit-bearing trees and plants like houris; it fills their hands with every sort of fruit and they hold them out to us, saying: "Help yourselves, and eat!" It also gives us sweet, healing honey to eat from the poisonous bee, and dresses us in the softest silk by means of a handless insect. It deposits for us in a handful of tiny seeds pounds of food, making those tiny stores into reserve supplies. Such a mercy and compassion surely would not execute these lovable, grateful, worshipping believers which they nurture so kindly. Indeed they dismiss them from their duties in this worldly life to bestow on them still more brilliant instances of mercy, and in so doing the names of All-Compassionate and Munificent answer our question.

Also, we see before our eyes that a hand of wisdom works in all creatures on the face of the earth and a justice is in force with its measures, nothing superior to which the human mind can conceive of. For example, a pre-eternal wisdom inscribes in man's faculty of memory, which is one instance of wisdom in his thousands of faculties and physical systems and is as tiny as a miniscule seed, his entire life-story and the numerous events which touch on him, making it into a small library. He then places it in the pocket of his mind as a note from the register of his actions which will be published for his judgement at the Great Gathering, in order to continuously remind him of this. And an eternal justice places on all creatures their members with the finest balance, and makes all of them — from the microbe to the rhinoceros, and the fly to the simurgh bird, and from a flowering plant to the flower of the spring, which opens thousands of millions of flowers in the spring — with a beauty of art and balance with no waste within a mutual proportion, equilibrium, order and beauty; it gives all living creatures their rights of life with perfect balance, and makes good things produce good results and bad things, bad results; and since the time of Adam it has made itself felt forcefully through the blows it has dealt to rebellious and tyrannous peoples. Certainly and without doubt, just as the