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THE FIRST WORD: On In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate, showing what a strength and source of bounty it is and how it is constantly recited by all things

through the tongues of their beings ....................................................................................15


The Second Station of the Fourteenth Flash: About six of the thousands of mysteries of In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.......................................................18


THE SECOND WORD: A comparison showing the believers' and unbelievers' views of the world, and how happiness and ease of mind lie in belief in God and in Islam ........................27



THE THIRD WORD: A comparison illustrating how worship yields high profits and vice and dissipation result in serious loss ..........................................................................................29


THE FOURTH WORD: A comparison illustrating the value and importance of the five daily prayers, and the ease they afford man's spirit, heart, and mind ............................................32


THE FIFTH WORD: A comparison showing that man's true duty

is worship of God and to avoid grievous sins ......................................................................34


THE SIXTH WORD: A comparison describing five ways in which selling oneself and one's property to God is profitable trade, and five serious losses incurred when this is neglected....37


THE SEVENTH WORD: A comparison showing how belief in God and the hereafter are two talismans which both solve the riddle of creation and open the door of happiness for man....................................................................................................................................41


THE EIGHTH WORD: On the true nature of religion, this world, man, and belief in God, and a comparison between the way of the Qur'an and that of unbelief and their results for man's heart and spirit ................................. ................................................................................45

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