Now is it so difficult to sell the Trust? Is it so burdensome that many people shun the transaction? By no means! It is not in the least burdensome. For the limits of the permissible are broad, and are quite adequate for man's desire; there is no need to trespass on the forbidden. The duties imposed by God are light and few in number. To be the slave and soldier of God is an indescribably pleasurable honour. One's duty is simply to act and embark on all things in God's name, like a soldier; to take and to give on God's behalf; to move and be still in accordance with His permission and law. If one falls short, then one should seek His forgiveness, say:
"O Lord! Forgive our faults, and accept us as Your slaves. Make us sure holders of Your Trust until the time comes when it is taken from us. Amen1.", and make petition unto Him.
[The Gate of God's Bestowal of Life and Death; the manifestations of the Names of Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent, and Giver of Life and Giver of Death.]
Is it at all possible that the One Who restores to life the vast dead, dry earth; and within that restoring to life, demonstrates His power by resurrecting —like the resurrection of man— each of more than three hundred thousand varieties of creatures; and within that resurrection, displays the His all-embracing knowledge through differentiating and separating out to an infinite degree beings infinitely mixed up and intermingled; Who, with all His heavenly decrees, turns the gazes of all His servants towards eternal happiness by promising the resurrection of man; Who demonstrates the tremendousness of His domini-cality through making aH beings unite and stand shoulder to shoulder and assist one another and be subjugated to one another, and causing them to revolve under His command and wilt; Who demonstrates the great importance He gives to man by creating him as the most comprehensive, the most delicate and precious, the most needy and wanting fruit of the tree of the universe, and by taking him as His addressee, and subjugating all things to him; —is it at all possible that One Who is thus All-Compassionate and AU-Powerful, One Who is thus All-Wise and Ail-Knowing, should not bring about the resurrection of the dead; that He should not bring about the Great Gathering or be unable to do so; that He should not raise man to life or be unable to do so; that He should not institute a Supreme Tribunal; that He should not create Paradise and Hell? God forbid!
Indeed, the Glorious Disposer of this world creates numerous examples, signs, and indications of the Great Gathering and field of resurrection every century, every year, and every day in this narrow and transitory face of the earth.
For instance, we see in the Gathering of spring that within five or six days more than three hundred thousand sorts of animals and plants, great and small, are resurrected. The roots of all trees and plants, and some animals are returned and raised to life identically, while others are created in a form so similar as to be almost identical. And while seeds, which differ very little from one another in regard to their substance, are so intermingled, they spring to life in six days or six weeks perfectly distinct and differentiated, and with perfect order and balance, despite their abundance and the speed and ease with which they appear. It is at all possible that anything should be difficult for the One Who does this; that He should not create the heavens and the earth in six days; that He should not raise man to life at the blast of a trumpet? God forbid!
Think of a wonder-working scribe who writes out in one hour on a single page three hundred thousand books the letters of which are either spoilt or erased, most beautifully, all together without error, fault or defect or confusing them. If someone were to say to you: "This scribe will write out again from memory in one minute the book he himself has written and which has fallen into the water," could you then say: "He can't do it and I don't believe it!"?
Or think of a wonder-working king, who, in order to demonstrate his power, or by way of example, or for pleasure, removes mountains or transposes whole lands. You have seen that he has changed the sea into land, and then you have seen that a mighty rock has rolled down into a valley and blocked the way of guests he had invited to a banquet. Should someone say to you: "The king will remove that rock at a mere sign no matter how big it is, or else scatter it!", could you reply: "He can't remove it," or "He won't remove it!"?