And in place of a very minor ability to receive, belief puts a document into the hand of the limited, partial power of choice so that it may rely on an infinite Power and be connected to a boundless Mercy in the face of those innumerable enemies and layers of darkness. Indeed, belief is a document in the hand of the partial power of choice. And although this human weapon of partial choice, is in itself both short, and powerless, and deficient, just as when a soldier utilizes his partial strength on account of the state, he performs duties far exceeding his own strength, so too through the mystery of belief, if the limited, partial power of choice is used in the name of Almighty Allah and in His way, it may gain also a Paradise as broad as five hundred years.

And belief takes from the hands of the body the reins of the partial power of choice, which cannot penetrate to the past and future, and hands them over to the heart and spirit. Since the spirit and heart’s sphere of life is not restricted to present ti-me like the body, and included within it are a great many I years from the past and a great many years from the future, the partial power of choice ceases being partial and acquires universality. Just as through the strength of belief it may enter the deepest valleys of the past and repel the darkness of its sorrows, so also with the light of belief it may rise as far as the farthest mountains of the future, and remove its fears.