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The Sixth Page: On this page of bestowal and bounties, Names like O Merciful One! O Gentle One! are recited.
The Seventh Page: Flashes of such beauty are apparent in these bounties and results that they are worthy of a sincere gratitude and pure love which have been kneaded with true desire and compassion. On this page, the Names of O Beauteous One of Perfection! O Perfect One of Beauty! are inscribed and recited.
Thus, if the beautiful flower and human being display this number of Names, and that only in material and apparent form, you can conclude what exalted and universal Names all flowers and animate creatures, and huge and universal beings cause to be recited.
And you can conclude how many luminous, sacred Names, like Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One, and Giver of Life, man recites and causes to be recited by reason of his spirit, heart, mind and through the pages of life and other subtle qualities.
Thus, Paradise is a flower. The company of Houris is also a flower. The face of the earth is a flower. And spring is a flower. The heavens are a flower, while the stars are the gilded embroideries of that flower. And the sun is a flower, while the seven colours in its light are the flower's embroidered colours.
The universe is a beautiful and huge human being, in the same way that each human being is a miniature universe. The company of Houris, the assembly of spirit beings, the realm of angels, the congregation of jinn, and human kind, have each been formed, ordered, and created as if they were beautiful individuals. Just as each of them displays the Beauteous Maker's Names through its universality, as does each individual singly, so also are each of them different mirrors to His beauty and perfection, mercy and love. And each is a truthful witness to His infinite beauty and perfection, mercy and love. And each is a sign, a token of that beauty and perfection, mercy and love.
Thus, this infinite number of different sorts of perfections occurs within the sphere of Divine Unity and Oneness. That is to say, what are imagined to be perfections outside that sphere are not perfections at all.
And thus understand that the reality of beings is based on and relies on the Divine Names; rather, that their true realities are the manifestations of those Names. And that everything mentions and glorifies its Maker with numerous tongues in numerous ways.
And understand one meaning of the verse:
And there is not a single thing but extols His glory and praise.28
And say, "Glory be to Him Who is hidden in the intensity of His manifestation." And understand one meaning in the mentioning and repetition of phrases like the following at the end of the Qur'an's verses:
And He is the Mighty, the Wise.29 * And He is the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.30 * And He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.31
If you are unable to read the Names in a flower and cannot see them clearly, look at Paradise, study the spring, watch the face of the earth. You will be able to read clearly the Names written there, for they are the huge flowers of mercy. You will be able to see and understand their impresses and manifestations.
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