Eighth Window
Eighth Window
The testimony of all the prophets (Upon whom be peace), who among humankind possessed luminous spirits, relying on their manifest and evident miracles; and the testimony of all the saints, who with their luminous hearts are the spiritual poles of mankind, relying on their illuminations and wonder-working; and testimony of all the purified scholars, who possess luminous minds, relying on their researches and verifications; – the testimony of all these to the necessary existence, unity, and perfect dominicality of the Single One of Unity, the Necessary Existent, the Creator of All Things, forms a truly vast and light-filled window.
O you unfortunate denier! In whom do you place your trust so that you do not heed these? Or by closing your eyes in the daytime do you imagine the world to be plunged into night?
Ninth Window
Ninth Window
The universal worship in the cosmos self-evidently demonstrates an Absolute Object of Worship. Yes, the perfect obedience and worship of all angels and spirit beings – which is established by the testimony of those who have penetrated to the spirit world and the inner dimension of things and have met with the angels and spirit beings – and of all living beings self-evidently performing their duties in perfect order and in worshipful manner, and of all inanimate things self-evidently carrying out their duties in perfect submission and veneration, all demonstrate the necessary existence and unity of a True Object of Worship.
So too the true knowledge of those who know, with the strength of consensus, and the fruitful thanks of those who offer thanks, and the radiant glorification of those who recite God’s names, and the bounty-increasing exaltations of those who hymn God’s praises, and the demonstrative proofs and descriptions of divine unity of those who acknowledge it, and the true love and passion of the lovers of God, and the true will and desire of those who seek Him, and the earnest searching and penitence of those who turn to Him – all these show the necessary existence, perfect dominicality, and unity of the Pre-Eternal All-Worshipped One, the One Who is Known, Mentioned, Thanked, Praised, One, Beloved, Desired, and Sought.
Furthermore, all the acceptable worship of perfected human beings and