This means the world with all its parts is a glorifying servant of the Undying Creator, the Eternal All-Powerful One, obedient, subjugated.
To be large quantitatively does not always infer being great qualitatively, for a clock the size of a mustard seed is more eloquent than a clock the size of Aya Sophia.
A fly’s creation is more wondrous than that of an elephant, that undiscriminating creature.
If a Qur’an were to be written by the Pen of Power in atoms of ether on the minutest particle, the art being in inverse proportion to the size of the page,
Its eloquence would be equal to a Qur’an written in stars on the face of the heavens. The Pre-Eternal Inscriber’s art is everywhere of the utmost beauty and perfection.
Everywhere it is thus. The pen proclaims divine unity since it always works with utter perfection. Study carefully this truly meaningful piece!
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The Angels Are a Community, Charged With the Shari‘a of Creation
The Angels Are a Community, Charged With the Shari‘a of Creation
There are two divine Shari‘as: proceeding from two attributes, man is addressed by both and bound to comply with both.
The Shari‘a of Creation proceeds from the attribute of will, and orders the circumstances and motions of the world, the macrocosm, which are not voluntary. It is dominical will, and is also wrongly termed nature.
The Shari‘a proceeding from the attribute of speech is the code of laws which orders the actions of man, the microcosm, which are voluntary.
The two Shari‘as sometimes come together in the same place. The divine angels are a vast community, a divine army.
They are obedient bearers of the first Shari‘a, workers and representatives. Some of them are worshipping slaves of God, others throng the divine throne in ecstasy.
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As Matter Is Refined, Life Is Intensified
As Matter Is Refined, Life Is Intensified
Life is fundamental, basic; matter is dependent on it and subsists through it. If you compare a microscopic organism with its five senses, and man’s senses, you will see that however much larger man is than the organism, his senses are inferior to the same degree.