needs. Consider yourself: how many things are you in need of that your hands cannot reach, such as your external and inner senses and their needs? Compare all other living creatures with yourself. See, just as singly they testify to the Necessary Existence and point to His unity, so in their totality – as sunlight shows the sun – they show to the reason a Necessarily Existent One behind the veil of the Unseen, a Single One of Unity, among such titles as Most Generous, All-Compassionate, Nurturer, and Disposer.
O ignorant unbeliever and dissolute heedless one! With what can you explain this wise, percipient, compassionate activity? Deaf nature? Blind force? Senseless chance? Can you explain it through impotent, lifeless causes?
Second Window
Second Window
While in their existence and individuality, things are in a hesitant, bewildered, and shapeless form among innumerable possible ways, they are suddenly given a most well-ordered and wise aspect of individuality. For example, every human being has on his face characteristics which differentiate him from all his fellow humans, and it is equipped with utter wisdom with external and inner senses. This proves that the face is a brilliant stamp of divine oneness. And just as each face testifies in a hundred ways to the existence of an All-Wise Maker and points to His unity, so too the stamp which all faces display in their totality shows to the mind’s eye a seal peculiar to the Creator of all things.
O denier! To what workshop can you refer these stamps which can in no way be imitated, and the stamp of Eternal Besoughtedness which is on the totality?
Third Window
Third Window
The army of all the various species of animals and plants on the face of the earth consists of four hundred thousand different groups. [^1] Observedly, their being managed and raised with perfect balance and order together with their all-different sustenance, forms, weapons, uniforms, instructions, and demobilizations with nothing being forgotten and none of them being
[^1]:The members of some of those groups, even, are more numerous than all the members of the human race from the time of Adam up to the Last Day.