world laugh for joy. [^41] It showed too that the worlds of the people of misguidance weep in desolation, emptiness, and darkness. While enjoying the pleasures of this fruit, my imagination plucked one of the numerous fruits of belief in the prophets, which resembles it, and tasted it. Then suddenly my belief that all the prophets of the past are as though living, and my assent to them, lit up those times and made my belief universal and expanded it, and set thousands of signatures on their teachings concerning belief in the Prophet of the End of Time (PBUH), silencing the Satans.

[^41]:Musnad, v, 173; al-Tirmidhī, Zuhd, 9; Ibn Māja, Zuhd, 19.

Then a question occurred to me the decisive answer to which is included in the Thirteenth Flash, about the wisdom in seeking refuge with God from Satan. It in effect asked me: "The people of guidance are assisted and strengthened by innumerable sweet fruits and benefits like these, the fine results of good deeds, and the Most Merciful of the Merciful's compassionate succour and assistance, so why are they frequently defeated by the people of misguidance and sometimes twenty or a hundred of them are routed?" While pondering over this, I recalled the mobilizations and angels in the Qur'an in the face of Satan's feeble machinations, and Almighty God's sending assistance to the people of belief. The Risale-i Nur has explained the purpose and wisdom of this with decisive proofs, so here we shall allude to it only briefly.

Yes, sometimes if a single vandal tries to set fire to a palace that a hundred men have made, the palace can remain standing only by a hundred men protecting it and having recourse to the government and the king. For its existence is possible only through the existence of all the necessary conditions and causes, but its non-existence and destruction may occur through the non-existence of a single condition. In the same way that the palace may be burnt to the ground by a layabout with a single match, so satans from among jinn and men cause vast destruction and terrible non-physical conflagrations with some small actions. Yes, the basis and origin of all bad, evils, and sins is non-existence, it is destruction. The non-existence and destruction are concealed beneath apparent existence. Thus, relying on this point, satans from among jinn and men and evil beings withstand an infinite force with an extremely weak force, driving the people of truth and reality to continually seek refuge at the divine court and to flee to it. The Qur'an therefore mobilizes great forces for their protection. It gives for their use ninety-nine divine names and commands them sternly to withstand those enemies.

The tip of a vast truth and basis of an awesome matter became apparent