Letters ( revised ) | THE NINETEENTH LETTER | 228
(111-259)

Second Principle: Also, since that veracious and verified proof performed  thousands  of miracles  greater  than all the previous  prophets,  came  with a Shari‘a that will never be abrogated,  and his call was to all men and jinn, he was surely the chief of the prophets, and therefore gathered together in himself the essence and  unanimity  of  all  their  miracles.  That  means  the  strength  of  the  prophet’s consensus and the testimony of their miracles forms a support for his truthfulness and veracity. He was also the master and leader of all the saints and purified scholars, who attained to perfection through his training and guidance and the light of his Shari‘a. In which  case,  gathered  together  in  him  were  the  mystery  of  their  wonders,  their unanimous affirmation, and the strength of their verifications. For they travelled the way their master opened up and left open, and they found the truth. In which case, all their wonder-working and verifications and consensus forms a support for their sacred master’s truthfulness and veracity. Also, as was seen in the previous Signs, this proof of divine unity was equipped with such certain, evident, and definite miracles and wondrous irhasat, and his prophethood was proved by such irrefutable evidences that their  affirmation  could  not be disputed,  even  if the whole  universe  were  to unite against him.

Third Principle: And in that herald of divine unity and giver of the tidings of eternal  happiness,  who  was  himself  a  clear  miracle,  were  such  elevated  moral qualities, and in the duties of his messengership  such sublime attributes, and in the Shari‘a  he  propagated  such  high  virtues,  that  even  his most  bitter  enemy  had  to confirm them, being unable to deny them. Since the highest and best moral qualities, the most elevated and perfect attributes, and the most precious and acceptable virtues were present in his self, his duties, and his religion, for sure, that person was the exemplar, model, personification, and master of the perfections and elevated moral qualities  in beings.  In which case,  those  perfections  in his self,  his duty,  and  his religion form a support for his veracity and truthfulness so powerful that it can in no way be shaken.

Fourth Principle: And that herald of divine unity and happiness, who was the source of perfections and teacher of elevated virtues, did not speak of himself; he was made to speak. Yes, he was made to speak by the Creator of the universe. He received instruction from his Pre-Eternal Master, then he taught. For the universe’s Creator showed through the thousands of proofs of his prophethood, in part described in the above Signs, through all those miracles He created through his hand, that he was not speaking on his own account, but conveying His speech. Furthermore, the Qur’an that came to him shows through its forty aspects of miraculousness, outer and inner, that he was Almighty God’s interpreter.

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