The Thirty-Second Word

The Thirty-Second Word

[This Word consists of three Stopping-Places. It is an addendum explaining the Eighth Flash of the Twenty-Second Word, and is also a commentary on the first of the fifty-five tongues with which all the beings in the universe testify to divine unity. These tongues have been alluded to in my treatise called Katre (A Droplet). It is one truth, which has been clothed in the garment of comparison, of many truths pertaining to the verse: “Had there been in heaven or on earth any deities other than God, there surely would have been confusion in both.”(21:22)]

First Stopping-Place

First Stopping-Place

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

Had there been in heaven or on earth any deities other than God, there surely would have been confusion in both.(21:22)

There is no god but God, He is One, He has no partner; His is the dominion and His is the praise; He grants life and deals death, and is living and dies not; all good is in His hand; He is powerful over all things; and with Him all things have their end. [^1]

[^1]:Bukhārī, Adhān, 155; Tahajjud, 21; ‘Umra, 12; Jihād, 133; Bad’ al-Khalq, 11; Maghāzī, 29; Da‘awāt, 18, 52; Riqāq, 11; I‘tisām, 3; Muslim, Dhikr, 28, 30, 74, 75, 76; Witr, 24; Jihād, 158; Adab, 101; Tirmidhī, Mawāqit, 108; Ḥajj, 104; Da‘awāt, 35, 36; Nasā’ī, Sahw, 83-6; Manāsik, 163, 170; Īmān, 12; Ibn Māja, Tijārāt, 40; Manāsik, 84; Adab, 58; Du‘a, 10, 14, 16; Abū Dā’ūd, Manāsik, 56; Dārimī, Ṣalāt, 88, 90; Manāsik, 34; Isti’dhān, 53, 57; Muwaṭṭa, Ḥajj, 127, 243; Qur’ān, 20, 22.

One night in Ramadan, I said that the above sentence affirming divine unity consists of eleven phrases and that in each of them is a degree expressing that unity and some good news. But of those degrees I only