Next, with the miraculous hand of art and the brush of munificence He gives the colours of beauty and adornment to the members of that form, whether a single human being or a single flower, like the eyes, ears, leaves, and stamens. If it is the earth, He gives the colours of beauty and adornment to its minerals, plants and animals. And if it is Paradise, He gives the colours of beauty and adornment to its gardens, palaces, and Houris. And so on. You can make analogies for the rest, too.
Furthermore, He adorns and illuminates in such a fashion that the meanings of favouring and munificence are predominant in those objects. And they govern to a degree where those adorned beings, those illuminated artefacts, become like embodied favours and incarnate munificence. They mention the Names of Gracious and Munificent.
Next, what impels the favouring and munificence to manifest are clearly the actions of displaying love and becoming known. That is, the qualities of making Himself loved by animate creatures and known by conscious ones. They cause animate and conscious beings to recite the Names of Loving and Known One behind the Names of Gracious and Munificent, and for this recitation, which is performed by the very mode of their beings, to be heard.
Then, embellishing those adorned and beautiful creatures with delicious fruits and lovable results, He turns from adorning to bestowing bounties, from graciousness to compassionateness. He causes them to recite the Names of Bestower and Compassionate and displays the manifestation of those two Names behind the outer veils.
And next, what impels these qualities of compassionateness and munificence belonging to that Being, Who is absolutely without need, to manifest are the qualities of mercy and gentleness. They display the Names of Gentle and Merciful and cause them to be recited.
And what impels the meanings of mercifulness and gentleness to manifest is, without doubt, an essential beauty and perfection which desire to become evident. They cause the Name of Beautiful and Names of Loving and Compassionate, which are contained within the Name of Beautiful, to be recited. For beauty is loved for itself. Beauty and one possessing beauty love themselves. Moreover, it is both loveliness and love.
Perfection, also, is loved for itself; no other cause is necessary. It is both lover and beloved. Since a beauty that is at the utmost degree of perfection and a perfection that is at the utmost degree of beauty are loved and are worthy of love to the utmost degree, most certainly will they desire to see and to exhibit themselves through displaying their flashes and manifestations in mirrors, in accordance with the capacity of the mirrors.
That is to say, the essential beauty and perfection in the essence of the All-Glorious Maker, the All-Wise One of Beauty, the All-Powerful One of Perfection, require the qualities of mercy and gentleness, and impel the Names of Merciful and Gentle to manifest.