to their Creator, and moreover that he will behold the vision of divine beauty in eternal happiness, you can imagine what a profound joy and true happiness a human being who has not fallen from the level of humanity will feel in his heart.

Now we say to our listener: Tear off the shirt of atheism and throw it away! Listen with believing ears! Look with Muslim eyes! We shall show you through two short comparisons the great value of one or two more fruits.

#### The First Comparison

For example, you and I are together in a country. We see that everything is hostile to us and to each other, and is strange to us. Everywhere is full of ghastly corpses. The sounds that are heard are the weeping of orphans and the lamentations of the oppressed. So if someone were to appear bringing good news from the country’s king due to which those strange subjects of his assume the form of friends and the enemies turn into brothers, and the ghastly corpses are seen to be worshipping, praising, and glorifying in deep humility and submission; and if the piteous weeping becomes praise and exaltation and cries of “Long live the king!”, and the deaths, plunder and pillage are transformed into demobilizations and a release from duty; and if we join the general joy to our own joy, you will certainly understand how joyful and happy that news is.

Thus, when the beings in the universe are considered with the eye of misguidance, as they were before the light of belief, which is one fruit of Muhammad’s (UWBP) Ascension, they are seen to be strange, menacing, troublesome, dreadful, terrifying corpses the size of mountains, while the appointed hour is severing heads and casting people into the pit of eternal, never-ending nothingness. Where misguidance portrays all the voices as lamentations occasioned by separation and decease, the truths of the pillars of belief, which are fruits of the Ascension, show you that just as beings are brothers and friends to you and praisers and glorifiers of the All-Glorious One, so are death and decease a demobilization and discharge from duties; in reality the voices are all glorifications of God. If you wish to study this truth in its entirety, you may refer to the Second and Eighth Words.

#### The Second Comparison

The Second Comparison: You and I are in a place resembling a vast desert. A sandstorm rages in the sea of sand and the night is so black we cannot see even our hands. If suddenly, when we are without friend or protector, are hungry and thirsty, despairing and giving up hope, a person were to pass through the curtain of blackness and approach us bringing a car as a gift; and if he were to seat us in it, and then instantly instal us in a place like Paradise where our future was secure, food and drink ready