which You have taught us; indeed, You are All-Knowing, All-Wise!(10)

O God! Grant blessings and peace to our master Muhammad, the Lamp of Your Unity in the multiplicity of Your creatures, and the Herald of Your Oneness in the exhibition of Your creation, and to all his Family and Companions.

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

Look, then, to the signs of God’s mercy, how He restores life to the earth after its death.(11)

The following section(12) alludes to one flower from the preeternal garden of the above verse.

It is as if all the blossoming trees are beautifully composed odes speaking poetically through the tongue of disposition reciting the manifest praises of the Glorious Creator.

Or, it is as if all the blossoming trees have opened thousands of gazing eyes and have caused thousands of others to open in order to behold, not with one or two eyes but with thousands, the Glorious Fashioner’s wonders of art which are being broadcast and exhibited, and so that attentive people will gaze on them, too.

Or, it is as if all the blossoming trees have beautified their verdant limbs with the finest adornment for the moment of their parade and for their own particular

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(10) Qur’an, 2:32.
(11) Qur’an, 30:50.
(12) In the original text this section is in Arabic, together with the author’s Turkish rendering, which is the source of the translation here. The lines at the end are in Persian (Tr.).