Fifth Proof: If four people who have arrived via four different routes all speak of the same event, it suggests with a certainty born of unanimity that the event definitely occurred. Thus, although their ways, dispositions, abilities, and times were all different, all the scholars of religion with their different ranks, the saints and purified ones with their different paths and ways, and the true philosophers with their different creeds are all in agreement. They are the people who unveil the secrets of the cosmos, who have tasted the truth, and have observed and borne witness to it with their whole beings. And through their unveilings, witnessings, and testimonies, they have unanimously agreed that the qualities and perfections to be seen in the mirrors and displays of the universe and its beings are the manifestations of a Single Necessarily Existent One's perfection and the manifestation of the beauty of His Names.
Their consensus and accord, then, is an unshakeable proof.
Let us suppose that in order not to hear this Sign, the representative of the people of misguidance was compelled to stop up his ears and flee. For certainly, like bats, heads so plunged into darkness cannot endure these lights. In which case, from here on we shall consider them little, if at all.
The Fourth Sign: Rather than looking to its likes and opposites, the pleasure, loveliness, and beauty of a thing look to where those qualities are manifested. For example, generosity is a fine and pleasing attribute. The pleasure a generous person obtains from the joy and pleasure of those he has favoured is thousands of times more gratifying than the relative pleasure obtained from feeling superior to other generous people.
Also, a kind and compassionate person receives true pleasure to the degree that those towards whom he has been compassionate find ease and comfort. For example, the pleasure a mother receives from the happiness and comfort of her children, through compassion, is so strong that she would sacrifice her very soul for their comfort. The pleasure of such compassion even makes a hen attack a lion in order to protect her chicks.
Thus, the true pleasure, goodness, happiness and perfection in elevated attributes do not look to peers and opposites, but to their dependents and the places they are manifested. The beauty, therefore, in the Glorious and Perfect One's mercy, Who is Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent, Clement and Benevolent, Compassionate and Merciful, looks to those who receive His mercy.
There are endless degrees in the happiness, ease and joy of those who receive the manifestation of His mercy, and especially those who receive the endless varieties of His mercy and compassion in everlasting Paradise. According to the degrees of their happiness and joy, we may understand that the Merciful and Compassionate One possesses exalted, pure, holy, and beautiful meanings, like fondness and love, in a manner appropriate to Him, that may be described through qualities which are proper to Him. He possesses utterly pure and holy qualities which we may not mention because the Shari'a does not permit it, but which may be described as 'sacred pleasure', 'holy love', 'pure joy' and 'sacred happiness'. We have proved in many places that they are infinitely more exalted, elevated, holy, and pure than the love, joy, and happiness that we see in the universe and may perceive among creatures. If you wish to take a look at a flash of each of those meanings, then look through the telescope of the following comparisons.