"And although we are thus and proclaim our Glorious Maker and His unity, oneness, eternal besoughtedness, and His attributes of beauty, glory and perfection to the whole universe with innumerable tongues, you still accuse us utterly pure, clean, obedient and subservient servants of being confused, disorderly, and without duties, and even of being without an owner. You therefore deserve a truly punishing slap."
And one star, like the stone hurled at Satan, delivered such a mighty slap at the claimer's face that it flung him from the stars to the very pit of Hell. And it cast nature,⁸ which was together with him, into the valleys of delusion, and chance into the chasm of non-existence, and those things ascribed to God as partners into the darkness of impossibility, and the philosophy that is hostile to religion down to the lowest of the low. All the stars recited this sacred decree together with that star:
Had there been in heaven or earth any deities other than God, there surely would have been confusion in both .⁹ And they proclaimed: "There is nothing, from a fly's wing to the lamps in the heavens, nothing, even the size of a fly's wing, in which those things ascribed to God as partners could interfere."
Glory be unto You! We have no knowledge save that which You have taught us; indeed. You are All-Knowing. All-Wise!i0 O God.' Grant blessings and peace to our master Muhammad, the Lamp of Your Unity in the multiplicity of Your creatures, and the Herald of Your Oneness in the exhibition of Your creation, and to all his Family and Companions.
In the Name of God. the Merciful, the Compassionate. Look, then, to the signs of God's mercy, how He restores to life the earth after its death.¹¹
The following section¹² alludes to one flower from the pre-eternal garden of the above verse.
It is as if all the blossoming trees are beautifully composed odes speaking poetically through the tongue of disposition reciting the manifest praises of the Glorious Creator.
Or, it is as if all the blossoming trees have opened thousands of gazing eyes and have caused thousands of others to open in order to behold, not with one or two eyes but with thousands, the Glorious Fashioner's wonders of art which are being broadcast and exhibited, and so that attentive people will gaze on them, too.
Or, it is as if all the blossoming trees have beautified their verdant limbs with the finest adornment for the moment of their parade and for their own particular festivals in the general festival of spring, so that their Glorious Monarch will contemplate the gifts, subtle wonders, and resplendent works of art He has bestowed upon them; and so that He will present to creation's gaze the bejewelled instances of His mercy, in springtime, and on the face of the earth, which is the exhibition of Divine art; and so that He will proclaim to mankind the wisdom in the creation of the tree.
He demonstrates the perfection of Divine power through showing what important treasure hangs on their delicate branches and what significant wealth there is in the fruits of His merciful bounties.
The imagination sees heavenly angels embodied from these trees With thousands offlutes. From these flutes the consciousness hears The praises of the Ever-Living One. Their leaves have tongues, each reciting the word: It is He! It is He!
Meaning,
О Ever-Living One! О Ever-Living One!
Since all things chant in unison: There is no god but He,
And they are seeking Truth,
From beginning to end they recite: О Ever-Living One! They are chanting in unison: O God!
And We send down from the skies water rich in blessings.13
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9. Qur'an, 21:22.
10. Qur'an, 2:32.
11. Qur'an, 30:50.
12. In the original text this section is in Arabic, together with the author's Turkish rendering, which is the source of the translation here. The lines at the end are in Persian. [Tr.]
13. Qur'an, 50:9.