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Sixth gleam: Just as the All‑Majestic Creator has placed the stamp of
His Unity on His creatures’ foreheads, He has placed in a most visible fashion
many stamps of His Unity on all species, numerous seals of His Unity on all
kingdoms of beings, and various signatures of His Oneness on the whole world.
Out of these let’s look at one placed on Earth’s face in spring. This stamp of
Divine Unity is as evident and brilliant as spring, during which the Eternal
Designer resurrects countless plant and animal species with complete
differentiation and specification, and perfect orderliness and separation amid
infinite intermingling and confusion.
Is it so hard to perceive that raising dead soil to life in spring, showing
with perfect order countless samples of resurrection, and writing on Earth’s
page the individual members of countless species without fault or forgetting,
mistake or deficiency, and in a most well‑balanced and well‑proportioned,
well‑ordered and perfect fashion, is a seal unique to One of Majesty, an
All‑Powerful One of Perfection, an All‑Wise One of Grace and Beauty, One Who has
infinite Power, all‑encompassing Knowledge, and a Will able to govern the
universe? Look upon the signs and imprints of God's Mercy, how He revives
Earth after its death. He will revive the dead [in the same way]. He is powerful
over all things.·(30:50)
Resurrecting the dead is such a simple matter for the Creative Power that,
within a few days, gives countless examples of this by quickening Earth. For
example, is it proper to ask a miracle‑working one who, at a sign, raises up
Mount Ararat if he can remove a huge rock blocking your way? In the same way, is
it proper to say (in a manner implying doubt) to an All‑Wise and Powerful One,
an All‑Munificent and Compassionate One, Who created the firmaments, Earth and
the mountains in “6 days” and continuously fills and empties them: “Can you
remove this layer of soil over us that is blocking our way to Your banquet
prepared and laid out in eternity? Can you level it and let us pass across it?”
Surely you have seen a stamp of Divine Unity on Earth’s face during summer. A
seal of Divine Oneness is clearly seen in the most wise, insightful, and mighty
Divine operations on Earth’s face during spring. This activity is absolutely
extensive, speedy, liberal or generous, and done in absolute orderliness. A most
perfect beauty of art, it is done in a most perfect form of creation. Thus only
One with infinite knowledge and boundless power could own such a seal. That seal
belongs to One Who, although nowhere, is all‑present and all‑seeing. Nothing is
hidden from or difficult for Him. With respect to His Power, particles and stars
are equal.
Once in a garden of the All‑Compassionate One of Grace’s munificence, I
counted bunches (of grapes) hanging from a grapevine that was two‑fingers thick.
I saw it to be like one little pip among the “bunches” of His miracles. There
were 155 bunches, and one bunch contained about 120 grapes. I thought: If this
grape vine were a tap from which honeyed water flowed ceaselessly, only then
would the water be enough, in this heat, for the bunches on which hang those
hundreds of little “pumps” of mercy’s sherbet. But this grapevine manages with
only a little moisture, which it occasionally obtains. Therefore the One Who
does this must be powerful over all things. Glory be to Him at whose work minds
are bewildered.
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