Mathnawi al-Nuriya ( not all sections) | The first treatise | 16
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INDEX OR BRIEF SUMMARIES OF THE TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THE TREATISE

*Causes or causality to which some ascribe creativity are only a veil over the operation of the Divine Power. The Dignity and Grandeur of God require such a veil. (1)

*Belief in God's Unity has two degrees. (2)

*Life is an argument for God's Unity. Being complex and inclusive in character, a living thing is like a miniature of the universe, a shining fruit of the tree of creation, a nucleus of the whole of creation, which the

Creator has made a sample or a pattern of most species. (4)

*If you affirm that the universe is a book written with the pen of a Single One, then you are following the easiest and most reasonable path. If, by contrast, you attribute the universe to nature or material causes, then this is, in fact, the most unreasonable and difficult of ways to follow. (6)

*Every "created" letter of the book of the universe points to itself only to the extent of being a letter. However, it points to its Maker in many respects both individually and in the words and sentences in which it is included, and manifests the titles of its Maker, describing them as if it were a long eulogy. (7)

There are hundreds of thousands of examples of the Resurrection in the quickening of the earth in spring after winter. (8)

The universe is like a magnificent palace, a well-ordered factory, and a well-planned city, among all of whose elements or parts there is a mutual collaboration and co-operation for great purposes. This manisfestly points to the One Creator and Director. (9)

The food of living things is distributed among them just on time and according to the need of each. This well-arranged universal providence contained in an all-encompassing mercy implies the Provider's love for and knowledge of those provided. (10)

*Every species and element testify that each belongs to the One Who owns everything. Every flower or fruit or every animal or micro-organism is a seal proclaiming, or a stamp pronouncing, or a signature declaring, in the tongue of perfect harmony and orderliness and the purposes each serves: Whose property I am, this space is also His property. Whoever has created me, has also created it. Whoever uses me as a letter, has also "written" it, and Whoever has made me a stitch, has also woven it. (11)
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