disappear along with them. Whereas the things which we attribute to them, which follow on after them, are repeated. That means those works are not theirs, but the works of one who does not perish. It is understood from the bubbles on the surface of a river disappearing and the bubbles which succeed them sparkling in the same way that what makes them sparkle is a constant and elevated possessor of light. Similarly, the speedy changing of things and the things that follow on after them assuming the same colours shows that they are the manifestations, inscriptions, mirrors, and works of art of one who is perpetual, undying, and single.

Eleventh Proof

ELEVENTH PROOF

Come, my friend! Now I shall show you a decisive proof as powerful as the ten previous ones. We shall board a boat, [^20] and sail to a peninsula, far away. For the key to this riddle-filled world is there. Moreover, everyone is looking to the peninsula and awaiting something from it; they are receiving orders from there. See, we are on our way. Now we have arrived and have alighted at the peninsula. There is a vast gathering, a great concourse, as though all the notables of the country have gathered there. Look carefully, this great community has a leader. Come, we shall draw closer; we must become acquainted with him. Look! What brilliant decorations he has, more than a thousand of them. [^21] How powerfully he speaks! How pleasant is his conversation! In these fifteen days I have learnt a little of what he says. You learn them from me. See, he is speaking of this country’s miracle-displaying king. He is saying that the glorious king sent him to us. And he is displaying such wonders that they leave no doubt that he is his special envoy. Look carefully, it is not only the creatures on this peninsula that are listening to what he says; in wondrous fashion he is making the whole country hear. For near and far everyone is trying to hear the speech here. It is not only humans that are listening, animals are listening too. Look, even the mountains are listening to the commands he brought so that they are stirring in their places, and the trees, too, move to the place he indicates. He brings forth water from wherever he wishes. He even makes his fingers

[^20]:The ship indicates history, and the peninsula, the Era of Bliss or Age of the Prophet (UWBP). Casting off the dress of this low civilization on its dark shore, entering the seas of time, boarding the ship of history and alighting at the Arabian Peninsula and Era of Bliss, and visiting the Glory of the World (UWBP) at his duties, we know that he is a proof of divine unity so brilliant that he illuminates the entire globe and the two faces of the past and the future, and disperses the darkness of unbelief and misguidance.

[^21]:The thousand decorations are the miracles of Muhammad (UWBP), which according to those who have investigated them, reach nearly a thousand.