The Answer: To explain the wisdom in this would require a thousand pages. So we shall leave aside a full explanation and condense in two pages an extremely brief summary of it.

If a person performs a natural function or social duty enthusiastically, anyone who observes him carefully will certainly understand that there are two things that make him do this:

The First are the benefits, fruits, and advantages resulting from the duty, which are called the ulti­mate cause.

The Second: Such things as love, desire, and pleasure cause him to perform the duty enthusiasti­cally, and these are called the necessitating cause and reason.

For example, eating food; the pleasure and long­ing arising from appetite drive a person to eat, and afterwards, the result of eating is nourishing the body and perpetuating life. In the same way, And God's is the highest similitude, based on two sorts of divine names, the awesome and astonishing end­less activity in the universe occurs for two vast instances of wisdom, each of which is also infinite:

The First: Almighty God's Most Beautiful Names have incalculable sorts of manifestations.

The variety in creatures arises from the variety of the manifestations. The names require to be mani­fested in a permanent fashion; that is, they want to display their embroideries; that is, they want to see and display the manifestations of their beauties in the mirrors of their embroideries; that is, they want every instant to renew the book of the universe and missives of beings; that is, they necessitate the con­tinuous meaningful writing, and to display each mis­sive to the study and gaze of the the Most Pure-and Holy Essence, the One signified, as well as to all conscious beings; they require to make each of the missives read.

Second Reason and Instance of Wisdom: Just as activity in creatures arises from appetite, desire, and pleasure, and there is a definite pleasure in all activity; indeed, all activity is a sort of pleasure; so too, in a suitable way and form appropriate to His essential self-sufficiency and absolute riches and in a manner fitting for His abso­lute perfection, the Necessarily Existent One has boundless sacred compassion and infinite holy love. And He feels a boundless sacred ardour arising from that sacred compassion and holy love, and an end­less holy joy arising from that sacred ardour, and, if one may say so, an infinite sacred pleasure arising from the sacred joy. And pertaining to that Merciful and Compassionate One, is, if the term is permissi­ble, a boundless sacred gratification and infinite holy pride arising from the boundless feeling ofcompassion that springs from the sacred pleasure, sacred gratification and pride which arise from the gratitude and perfections of creatures which result from their abilities emerging from the potential to the actual and their developing within the activity of power. It is these which necessitate in boundless fashion, an endless activity.