only I could learn what he wants of me. If only I knew what would please him that I could do.”
Man, then, should understand just how necessary it is to be desirous and eager to discover the Ruler of Pre-Eternity and Post-Eternity’s wishes and pleasure. For all beings are in the grasp of His power, and the beauty and perfections found in beings are but pale shadows in relation to His beauty and perfection, while man, being needy for Him in innumerable ways, constantly receives countless numbers of His bounties.
Thus, as a direct fruit of the Ascension, Muhammad (UWBP) heard directly from behind seventy thousand veils what it is that pleases the Monarch of Pre-Eternity and Post-Eternity, and returning, brought it as a gift to humankind. [^21]
[^21]:See, Bukhārī, Manāqib al-Anṣār, 42; Muslim, Imān, 279; Musāfirīn, 253; Tirmidhī, Tafsīr Sūra 53:1; Nasā’ī, Ṣalāt, 1; Iftitāḥ, 25; Musnad, i, 387, 422.
Indeed, how curious is man to learn the conditions on the moon. If someone were to go there and return bringing news of it, what self-sacrifice he would display, and, if he were to understand the conditions there, how he would be overcome by wonder and curiosity. But the moon is merely touring in the domain of a Lord of such dominion that it encircles the globe of the earth like a fly, and the globe flies round the sun like a moth, while the sun is one lamp among thousands and is just a candle in a guesthouse of that Glorious Lord of All Dominion.
Thus, Muhammad (UWBP) saw the works and wonders of art and treasuries of mercy in the everlasting realm of the All-Glorious One, and he returned and informed humankind. And so, if mankind does not listen to him with complete wonder, curiosity, and love, you can understand how contrary to reason and wisdom is their attitude.
Third Fruit
THIRD FRUIT
Muhammad (UWBP) saw the treasury of eternal happiness, obtained the key, and brought it as a gift to jinn and men. Yes, through the Ascension, he saw Paradise with his own eyes and witnessed the eternal manifestations of the All-Glorious and Merciful One’s mercy; he understood eternal happiness with absolute and utter certainty and brought as a gift to jinn and men the good news of its existence.
If wretched jinn and men imagine themselves and all beings to be in a soul-searing situation in an unstable world amid the upheavals of decease and separation being poured with the flood of time and motion of particles into the oceans of non-existence and eternal separation, just how precious