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Second station (Third Gleam) |
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Written by dislam.org
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Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
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Third gleam: Look at the living creatures moving in this ever-moving universe, in these revolving bodies. The Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One has placed many seals on each one. One of them is this: A person is a miniature of the universe, a fruit of the Tree of Creation, and a seed of this world, for each person comprises samples of most species of beings. It is as if each living being were a drop distilled from the universe with the most subtle and sensitive balance. To create this living being and be its Lord requires that the creator have full control over the universe.
Can you not understand that to make a honeybee (a word of power) a sort of small index of most things, to “write” on humanity (a page) most of the universe’s features, to include in a tiny fig seed (a point) an entire fig tree’s program, to exhibit in our heart (a letter) the works of all Divine Names manifested throughout the universe, to record in human memory, which is situated in lentil-sized place, enough “writings” to fill a library, and to include in it a detailed index of all events in the cosmos, is most certainly a stamp unique to the Creator of all things and the All-Majestic Lord of the universe? Thus if one seal of Lordship on living beings displays its light and makes His signs read in such a fashion, consider all those seals together. How can you not proclaim: “Glory be to Him Who is hidden by the intensity of His manifestation."
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