And if the science of electricity were to be asked: “What is this world?”, it would certainly reply: “The roof of this magnificent palace of the universe has been adorned with innumerable orderly and balanced electric lamps, and the order and balance are so wondrous that foremost the sun, and those heavenly lamps which are a thousand times   larger  than  the   earth,  do   not  spoil  their  balance,  although  they  burn continuously; they do not explode or burst into flames. Their expenditure is endless, so where do their income and fuel and combustible  material come from? Why are they not exhausted? Why is the balance not spoilt with their burning? A small lamp goes out if it is not tended regularly. See the wisdom and power of the All-Wise One of Glory, who makes the sun, which according to astronomy is a million times larger than the earth and a million years older,1   burn without coal or oil, without being extinguished;  say:  ‘All Glory be  to  God!’  Say:  ‘What  wonders  God  has  willed!

Blessed be God! There is no god but He!’ to the number of seconds of the sun’s existence.

“This means there is a wondrous order in these heavenly lamps, and they are tended  with the greatest care. It is as if the boiler of those huge, numerous fier y masses,  those  light-shedding  lamps,  is  a  Hell  whose  heat  is  never  exhausted;  it provides them with lightless heat. While the machinery and central factory of those electric lamps is a perpetual  Paradise; it provides them with light and luminosity; through  the  greatest  manifestation  of  the  names  of  Sapient  and  All-Wise,  they continue to burn in orderly fashion.”

And so on; through the certain testimony of hundreds of sciences like these, the universe  has  been  adorned  with  innumerable instances  of wisdom, purposes,  and beneficial things  within a faultless, perfect order. And the order and wisdom given through that wondrous, all-encompassing wisdom to the totality of the universe have been included in small measure in seeds and the tiniest living creatures. It is clear and self-evident  that  aims,  purposes,  instances  of  wisdom,  and  benefits  can  only  be followed through choice, will, intention, and volition,  not in any other way. Neither could they be the work of unconscious causes and nature, which lack will, choice, and purpose, nor could they interfere in them.

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1   You can reckon just how much wood, coal, and oil would be necessary for the stove or lamp of the sun, which heats the palace of the world. According to the reckoning of astronomy, piles of wood equal to a million earths and thousands of oceans of oil would be necessary for it to burn each day. Now think! And say: “Glory be to God! What wonders God has willed! Blessed be God!” to the number of the sun’s particles in the face of the majesty, wisdom, and power of the All-Powerful One of Glory, who makes it give light continuously without firewood or oil.