sage of the seasons, centuries, and ages, and the perpetual bestowal of bounties throughout the passage of the creatures and days and people?

Indeed, a perfect work points to one possessing intellect who performs a perfect act, and the perfect act points to one with understanding who possesses perfect names, and the perfect names point to perfect attributes, and perfect attributes point to perfect qualities, and the perfect qualities point to the perfection of the essence from which they proceed, and this is absolutely certain.

Indeed, the ephemerality of the mirrors and death of creatures together with the perpetual manifestation and constant effulgence is the clearest of proofs that their apparent beauty does not belong to the places of manifestation; but is the most eloquent statement and clearest argument for a transcendent beauty, and renewed bestowal, for the Necessary Existent, for the Enduring One, the Loving One.

O God! Grant blessings to our master Muhammad from pre-eternity to post-eternity to the number of things encompassed by divine knowledge, and to his Family and Companions, and grant them peace. ∗ ∗ ∗