mand and in accordance with His wisdom; it cannot occur in any other way.

For example, one man shot another with a rifle. If the man who fired the shot is entirely disregarded and only the gunpowder in the bullet igniting is taken into consideration, the rights of the wretched victim would be completely violated, and it would be the epitome of foolishness. In just the same way, the earth is a docile official of the All-Powerful One of Glory, rather, a ship or an aircraft of His. So to forget the dominical command concerning it: “Explode a bomb inside the earth prepared through wisdom and will in order to arouse the heedless and the rebellious!” and to deviate into nature, is the very peak of stupidity.

An Addition and Footnote to the Sixth Question: In order to defend their way and counter the awakening of the believers and hinder them, the people of misguidance and the atheists display an obduracy so strange and a stupidity so peculiar it makes a person regret his humanity. For example, in order to make men give up their wicked and wrongful rebellion which recently has become somewhat general, and to arouse humanity and make it forego this awesome revolt and recognize the universe’s Sovereign, Whom it does not want to recognize, the Creator of the heavens and the earth – not on account of a particular title but as Sustainer and Ruler of the whole universe and all the worlds and through a widespread and general manifestation throughout the universe in the universal sphere of His dominicality – has struck humankind in the face with awesome, widespread calamities like earthquakes, storms, and world wars due to the universal elements coming to anger, with water, the air, and electricity, which are matchless and constant. He has demonstrated through them in all clarity His wisdom, power, justice, and self-subsistence. Although this is the case, certain brainless satans in human form respond to these universal dominical signs and divine reprimands with a foolish obstinacy, saying:

“It’s nature. It’s the explosion of some strata under the earth and just chance. It’s the sun’s heat clashing with electricity, which happened in America and brought all the machinery to a standstill for five hours, and also caused the atmosphere in Kastamonu Province to turn red and take on the appearance of a conflagration.” They utter meaningless nonsense like this. Due to a boundless ignorance resulting from misguidance and an ugly obduracy arising from aggressive atheism, they do not know that causes are each only a pretext and a veil. A small seed taking the place of a village full of factories and looms to weave and produce the members of a pine tree as tall as a mountain shows this. By saying, “The tree emerged from the seed,” they in effect deny the thousand miracles displayed in the pine