Fourth gleam: Look carefully at the various multicolored beings floating in the heavens’ “ocean” and scattered over Earth’s face. Each one bears the Eternal Sun’s inimitable signatures. Just as His seals on life and living beings are apparent, so are His signatures on His act of giving life. As comparisons make profound meanings more easily understood, I offer a suitable comparison. Consider the sun: From planets to drops of water, to fragments of glass and sparkling snowflakes, a signature from the sun’s image and reflection, a radiant work (effect) particular to the sun, is apparent. If you do not accept the tiny suns apparent in these innumerable things as manifestations of the sun’s reflection, you must accept the absurd statement that an actual sun exists in each item.

In just the same way, and with respect to the giving of life from among the Eternal Sun’s manifestations, He has placed such a signature on each living being. Even if all causes came together and each one was a free agent able to do whatever it wills, they could not imitate that signature. Living beings (miracles of Divine Power) are each a focal point for the Divine Names’ manifestations, which are like the Eternal Sun’s rays. If, therefore, that amazing inscription of art, that curious composition of wisdom, that manifestation of the mystery of Oneness displayed by living beings is not attributed to the Single and Eternally Besought One, it means falling into total misguidance and superstition.

For example, it would mean giving each living creature an infinite creative power, an all-embracing knowledge, and an absolute will by which to govern the universe. In short, each one would have all the eternal attributes unique to the Necessarily Existent One. As such, each atom of that item would have to be divine, for each atom, especially seeds, are given such a character or properties that they take up a position in exact accordance. It is as if they are directly related with the whole species to which the living being growing from it belongs, for a seed seems to act in such a way that it is planted exactly in the place suitable for the continuation of its species and to plant the species’ flag.

We may even say that the seed takes up a position so that the living being can continue its transactions and relations with all the other creatures with which it is connected to receive its necessary sustenance. If, then, that seed or atom does not act under an Absolutely Powerful One’s command and its connection with Him is severed, it would have to have an eye with which to see all things and a consciousness encompassing all things.

In short, if the sun’s images or reflections in water drops, glass fragments, and multicolored flowers are not attributed to the sun, we must accept the existence of innumerable suns. This is an inconceivable superstition. In the same way, if everything that exists is not attributed to the Absolutely All-Powerful One, we must accept the existence of as many gods as particles in the universe. Such an idea is clearly untenable.

In summary, then, each atom has three windows opening onto the Eternal Sun’s light of Unity and Necessary Existence.

First window:·A soldier has relations with all levels of an army, duties in accordance with those relations, and actions in accordance with those duties and army regulations. It is the same with each atom in your body. For example, an atom in your eye’s pupil has similar relations and duties with your eyes, head, powers of reproduction, attraction and repulsion; with your veins and arteries, motor and sensory nerves that circulate your blood and work your body; and with the rest of your body. This shows that each bodily atom is a work of an Eternal, All-Powerful One and operates under His command.

Second window: An air molecule may visit, enter, and work within any flower or fruit. If it were not subjugated to and working under an Absolutely All-Powerful One’s command, it would have to know all systems and structures of all flowers and fruits and how they are formed, down to their peripheric lines. So that molecule shows the rays of a light of Divine Unity like a sun. The same holds true for light, soil, and water. Science says that the original sources of things are hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. All of these are the components of soil, air, water, and light.

Third window:·The seeds of all flowering and fruit-bearing plants are composed of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen. The only difference is the program of their progenitor deposited in them by Divine Destiny. If we put different kinds of seeds in a pot filled with soil, which is composed of particular or certain elements, each plant will appear in its own wonderful form, shape, and amazing members. If those particles were not subjugated to and under the command of One Who knows each thing with all its features, structures, lifecycles, and conditions of its life; One Who can endow everything with a suitable being and all that it needs; and to Whose Power everything is subjected without the least resistance, the following conclusions could not be avoided:

•  Each soil atom would have to contain “immaterial factories” that determine all the plants’ future lives as well as a number of workshops equal to all flowering and fruit-bearing plants, so that each could be the origin for these various beings. Do not forget that each plant differs in form, taste, color, and members.
•  Each plant would have to have an all-encompassing knowledge and be able to form itself. In other words, if a being’s connection with Almighty God is severed, you must accept a number of gods equal to the number of soil particles. This is untenable.

However, when you admit that the particles are working under an All-Powerful and All-Knowing One’s command, everything becomes very easy. An ordinary soldier, in the name of a powerful king and by relying and depending upon his power, can force a whole people to migrate, join two seas [by having them build a canal], or capture another king. In the same way, by the Eternal King’s command and permission, a fly may kill a tyrant, an ant may destroy another tyrant’s palace, and a fig seed may bear the load of a fig tree.[1]

Each atom contains two further true witnesses to the Maker’s necessary Existence and Unity. Despite its absolute powerlessness, each atom performs many significant duties; despite its lifelessness, each atom displays a universal consciousness by acting in conformity with the universal order. Thus each atom testifies, through its impotence, to the Absolutely All-Powerful One’s necessary Existence and to His Unity by acting in conformity with the order of the universe.

Each living being also contains two signs that He is the One and Eternally-Besought-of-All. In each is a seal of Divine Unity and a stamp of His being the Eternally-Besought-of-All, for each living being reflects in the mirror of itself all the Divine Names manifested in most parts of the universe. Like a focal point, it reflects the Ever-Living One’s and the Self-Subsistent One’s manifestations, two of the Greatest Divine Names. Since it reflects a display of the Unity of the Divine Essence behind the veil of the Name the Giver of Life, it bears a stamp of Divine Unity.

Again, since a living being is like a miniature of the universe and a fruit of the Tree of Creation, the easy satisfaction of its endless needs shows that God is the Eternally-Besought-of-All. In other words, the being has a Lord Who is concerned with it and always cares for it. Such concern and care is far more valuable for it than everything in the universe.

[God’s care] suffices a thing against everything, while all things [even if banded together] cannot suffice even a single thing against Him. This shows that the Lord of all beings needs nothing, that satisfying their needs does not diminish His Wealth, and that nothing is difficult for His Power. This is a sort of stamp of His being the Eternally-Besought-of-All. Through the tongue of life, every living being recites: Say: “He is God, the One. God, the Eternally-Besought-of-All”·(112: 1-2).

There are other significant windows or openings. I will discuss them briefly. Seeing that each atom opens up three windows and two openings on the Necessarily Existent One’s Unity and that life opens two doors, understand how the levels of all beings radiate the light for knowing the All-Majestic One. From this you can understand the degrees of progress in knowledge of God and the degrees of peace attained through it.

[1] 1A fly, entering Nimrod’s nose and reaching his brain, caused him to die, and ants destroyed Pharaoh’s palace.