T h e  E i g h t h : The cosmos indicates its Maker, Inscriber, and Designer, who creates, administers, and arranges it, and through determining its measure and form and regulating it, has disposal over it as though it was a palace, a book, an exhibition, a spectacle. And so too it indicates that it requires and necessitates an elevated herald, a truthful unveiler, a learned master, and a truthful teacher who will know and make known the divine purposes in the universe’s creation, teach the dominical instances of wisdom in its changes and transformations, give instruction in the results of its dutiful motions, proclaim its essential value and the perfections of the beings within it, and express the meanings of that mighty book; it indicates that he is certain to exist. Thus, the traveller knew that it testified to the truthfulness  of this being, who performed these functions better than anyone, and to his being a most elevated and loyal official of the universe’s Creator.

T h e  N i n t h : There is behind the veil One who wishes to demonstrate with these  ingenious  and  wise  artefacts  the  perfection  of  His  talent  and  art;  to  make Himself  known  and  loved  by  means  of  these  countless  adorned  and  decorated creations;  to  evoke  praise  and  thanks  through  the  unnumbered  pleasurable  and valuable bounties that he bestows; to cause men to worship Him with gratitude and appreciation in the face of His dominicality, through His solicitous and protective sustenance  of life, and His provision  of nurture and bounty  in such manner  as to satisfy the most delicate of tastes and appetites; to manifest His Godhead through the change of seasons, the alternation of night and day, and through all His magnificent and majestic deeds, all His awe-inspiring and wise acts and creativity, and thereby to cause men to believe in his Godhead, in submission, humility and obedience; and to demonstrate  His  justice  and  truthfulness  by at  all times protecting  virtue  and  the virtuous and destroying evil and the evil, by annihilating with blows from heaven the oppressor and the liar. There will of a certainty be at the side of this Unseen Being His most beloved creature and most devoted bondsman, who, serving the purposes that have just been mentioned, discovers and unravels the talisman and riddle of the creation of the universe, who acts always in the name of that Creator, who seeks aid and success from Him, and who receives them from Him – Muhammad of Quraysh (Peace and blessings be upon him!)

The traveller further said, addressing his own intellect: “Since these nine truths bear  witness  to  the  truthfulness  of this  being,  he  must be the source  of glory of mankind and the source of honour for the world. If we therefore call him the Pride of the World and Glory of the Sons of Adam, it will be fitting. The fact that the awesome sovereignty of that decree of the Compassionate One, the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition that he holds in his hand, has conquered half the world, together with his individual perfections and exalted virtues,  shows  that  he  is  the  most  important  personage  in  the  world.  The  most important word concerning our Creator is that which he utters.”