That is to say, due to the heedlessness resulting from my grievous state of mind, some of  the beings in the universe appeared to my neglectful soul as hostile and strange,16  others  as awesome corpses, and  yet others as orphans weeping in their loneliness. In the light of belief I saw that they were all friends and brothers. As for the awesome corpses, some were living and friendly while others had been released from their duties. Seeing through the light of belief the wailing of the orphans to be the murmuring of remembrance and glorification of God, I offered endless praise and thanks to the Glorious  Creator,  for  He  had  given  me  belief,  the  source  of  these  innumerable bounties. And  seeing that it is incumbent on me to think of all the beings in my personal world, which is  as vast as the world, as being engaged in the praise and glorification of God, and through intention to make use of them, it means that I say “All praise and thanks to God for the light of belief” together with all those beings, who utter it singly and as a whole through the tongue of disposition.

Moreover,  the  pleasures  of  life,  which  had  been  reduced  to  nothing  by my heedless and dreadful state of mind, and my hopes, which had withered up entirely, and  my  personal enjoyment  and bounties,  which  had  been constricted  within  the narrowest bounds, indeed, destroyed, suddenly so expanded through the light of belief that narrow sphere around my heart that it contained the whole universe – as has been proved clearly in other  parts of the Risale-i Nur – and in place of the bounties which had withered up in the garden of the Horhor Medrese and lost their taste, it made the realms of this world and the hereafter each a merciful table of bounties. It showed that not only the ten or so human members like the eyes, ears,  and heart, but also the hundred members were an extremely long arm which believers might  extend each according to his degree, to those two tables of the Most Merciful, to gather in  the bounties from all sides. At that time, I uttered the following words both to express this elevated truth, and as thanks for those endless bounties:

“I offer praise and thanks to my Creator for the light and bounty of belief to my very utmost, with all the particles of my being, for it shows me that this world and the hereafter  are  overflowing  with  bounties  and  mercy,  and  allows  me  and  all  true believers to benefit  from those two vast tables with the hands of all their senses, which develop and unfold through the light of belief and Islam.”

Since belief is so tremendously effective in this world, certainly in the Eternal Realm it will have such fruits and effulgences that they cannot be comprehended with the mind in this world, nor described.

16 Like earthquake, storm, tempest, plague, and fire.