Letters ( revised ) | THE NINETEENTH LETTER | 235
(111-259)

Fourth Droplet

 

See! He spreads such a light of truth that if you look at the universe as being outside the luminous sphere of his truth and guidance, you see it to be a place of general mourning, and beings strangers to one another and hostile, and inanimate beings to be like ghastly corpses and living creatures like orphans weeping at the blows of death and separation. Now look! Through the light he spreads, that place of universal mourning has been transformed  into a place where God’s names and praises are recited in joy and ecstasy. The foreign, hostile beings have become friends and brothers. While the dumb, dead inanimate creatures all become familiar officials and docile servants. And the weeping, complaining orphans are seen to be either reciting God’s names and praises or offering thanks at being released from their duties.

 

Fifth Droplet

 

Also,  through  his  light,  the  motion  and  movement  of  the  universe,  and  its variations, changes and transformations, cease being meaningless, futile, and the playthings of chance and rise to the level of being dominical missives, pages inscribed with the signs of creation, and mirrors to the divine names, while the world itself becomes a book of the Eternally Besought One’s wisdom. Man’s boundless weakness and  impotence  make  him  inferior  to  all  other  animals  and  his  intelligence,  an instrument of grief, sorrow, and sadness, makes him more wretched, yet when he is illumined  with  that  light,  he  rises  above  all  animals  and  all  creatures.  Through entreaty, his illuminated impotence, poverty, and intelligence make him a petted monarch; due to his complaints, he becomes a spoiled vicegerent of the earth. That is to say, if it were not for his light, the universe and man, and all things, would be nothing. Yes, certainly such a person is necessary in such a wondrous universe; otherwise it and the firmament would not be in existence.

 

Sixth Droplet

 

That person (UWBP) announces and brings the good news of eternal happiness; he is the discoverer and proclaimer of an infinite mercy, the herald and observer of the beauties of the sovereignty of dominicality, and the discloser and displayer of the treasures of the divine names. If you regard him in that way, that is in regard to his being a worshipful servant of God, you will see him to be the model of love, the exemplar of mercy, the glory of mankind, and the most luminous fruit of the tree of creation. While if you look in this way, that is, in regard to his messengership, you see him to be the proof of God, the lamp of truth, the sun of guidance, and the means to happiness. And look! His light has lit up east and west like dazzling lightning! Half the earth and a fifth of mankind have accepted the gift of his guidance and preserved it like life itself. So how is it that our evil- commanding souls and satans do not accept with all its degrees, the basis of all such a person (UWBP) claimed, that is, “There is no god but God?”

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