cines to cure their particular ills are all different. Furthermore, rather than being separated into squads and companies, they are all intermingled.

If the peerless and single king, then, out of perfect compassion and solicitude, and wonderful power, miraculous all-embracing knowledge, and extraordinary justice and wisdom, without confusing or forgetting any of them were himself, in person, without helper, to give all of them their completely different though appropriate uniforms, provisions, medicines, and weapons, would you not see what a powerful, solicitous, just and generous personage that king was. For if there were soldiers from ten nations in one battalion, it would be extremely difficult to clothe and equip them all differently. They would have to be fitted out in the same way whatever people they were from.

Similarly, if you wish to see the manifestation of the names of Truth and All-Merciful and Compassionate within the justice and wisdom of God Almighty, look at the plant and animal armies comprising four hundred thousand magnificent nations with their tents pitched on the face of the earth in springtime. For those groups and sections are all one within the other, and the uniform of each one is different, and the provisions, weapons, way of life, drill and demobilization are all different. Furthermore, they do not have the power to provide for those needs or the tongues to ask for those wishes. So watch and see the titles of Truth, All-Merciful, Provider, Compassionate, and Generous, together with order and equilibrium within the sphere of wisdom and justice. See how, without confusing, obscuring or forgetting any of them, He sustains, regulates and administers them all.

Could another hand, therefore, interfere in a matter performed with such amazing and all-encompassing order and balance? What, apart from the One Who is Single and Unique, Absolutely Wise, and Powerful over all things, could even stretch out its hand towards this art, this organizing, this sustaining, this administering? What cause could interfere?

##### Fourth Point

FOURTH POINT

You ask: “So long as they are in the form that the Qur’an commands, what are the results and benefits of all my different and various loves? That is, my love for food, myself, my wife, parents and children, my friends, the saints, the prophets, beautiful things, the spring and this world?”

The Answer: One would have to write a thick book in order to explain all the results. For now only one or two results will be alluded to briefly. Firstly, the immediate results in this world will be explained, then those that will become apparent in the hereafter will be mentioned.