Also, it sometimes happens that a single word, a single glorification, opens a treasury of happiness that does not open with sixty years of striving. That is to say, it sometimes happens that a single verse may be as beneficial as the Qur’an.

Also, the divine effulgence which God’s Noble Messenger (UWBP), who manifested the greatest name, received from a single verse, may have been as much as all the effulgence one of the other prophets ever received. And it would not be contrary to the truth to say that a believer who through the legacy of prophethood manifests the shadow of the greatest name, receives, in accordance with his own capacity and in regard to quantity, a reward as great as a prophet’s effulgence. Furthermore, reward and merit are from the World of Light, and one world from that world may be contained in a speck. Just as the heavens and all its stars may appear in a tiny fragment of glass, so reward and merit as luminous as the heavens may be contained in an invocation or verse which acquires transparency through a pure intention.

Conclusion: O unfair, unthinking, self-centred, cavilling man whose belief is weak and philosophy, strong! Consider these ten principles, then don’t make a narration you thought was contrary to the truth and opposed to reality the pretext for objecting to Hadiths, thus casting aspersions on the Noble Messenger’s (UWBP) sinlessness! Firstly, these ten principles and what they entail will make you give up your denial. They say: “If there is any real fault, it is ours,” it may not be ascribed to the Hadiths. They say too: “If the fault is not real, it springs from your misunderstanding.” In short; if anyone undertakes to deny and reject them, he has first to deny these ten principles and show them to be false. Now, if you are fair, having studied these principles with due attention, do not attempt to deny a Hadith your reason considers to be contrary to the truth! Say: “There is either an explanation, or an interpretation, or an exegesis of this,” and do not criticize it!

Eleventh Principle

ELEVENTH PRINCIPLE: Just as the Qur’an has obscure verses which are in need of interpretation or else require absolute submission, Hadiths also contain difficulties like the obscurities of the Qur’an. They are sometimes in need of extremely careful expounding and interpretation. The above examples may be sufficient for you.

Yes, someone who is awake interprets the dream of someone else who is sleeping, and sometimes someone who is sleeping hears the words spoken by others nearby him who are awake, but he gives them some meaning and interprets them in a way that applies to his own world of sleep. O man stupified by the sleep of heedlessness and philosophy! Do not