Letters ( revised ) | THE EIGHTEENTH LETTER | 111
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The Second Reason and Instance of Wisdom: Just as the activity of creatures arises  from  appetite,  desire,  and  pleasure,  and  there  is  a  definite  pleasure  in  all activity; indeed, all activity is a sort of pleasure; so too, in a suitable way and form appropriate  to  His  essential  self-sufficiency  and  absolute  riches  and  in a  manner fitting for His absolute perfection, the Necessarily Existent One has boundless sacred compassion and infinite holy love. And He feels a boundless sacred ardour arising from that sacred compassion and holy love, and an endless holy joy arising from that sacred ardour, and, if one may say so, an infinite sacred pleasure arising from the sacred joy. And pertaining to that Merciful and Compassionate One, is, if the term is permissible, a boundless sacred gratification and infinite holy pride arising from the boundless feeling of compassion that springs from the sacred pleasure, sacred gratification  and pride which arise  from  the gratitude  and perfections  of creatures which result from their abilities emerging from the potential to the actual and their developing within the activity of power. It is these which necessitate in boundless fashion, an endless activity.

Because philosophy, science, and natural philosophy do not know this subtle instance of wisdom, they have confused unconscious nature, blind chance, and lifeless causes in this utterly knowing, wise, percipient activity, and falling into the darkness of misguidance, have been unable to find the light of reality.

 

Say, “God [sent it down];” then leave them to plunge in vain discourse and trifling.(6:91)

O our Sustainer!  Do not  cause  our hearts  to  swerve  now that You have guided us, and bestow mercy upon us from Yourself; indeed, You are the Bestower of Gifts.(3:8)

O God! Grant blessings and peace to the Solver of the talisman of Your universe  to  the  number  of  atoms  of  beings,  and  to  his  Family  and Companions, so long as the earth and the heavens persist.

 

The Eternal One, He is the Eternal One!

 

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