Eleventh phrase:

And unto Him is the homecoming. Everything will return from the Realm of Transience to the Abode of Permanence and go to the Seat of the Ever-Enduring One’s Eternal Sovereignty. Everything will transfer from the World of Multiple Causes to the Sphere of the Majestic One of Unity’s Power, [where His Power operates without the veil of cause and effect]. Thus your place of recourse is His Court, and your place of refuge is His Mercy.

This eleventh phrase contains many more truths. Among them, the truth concerned with eternal happiness and Paradise is explained so clearly in the Tenth and Twenty-ninth Words that no need remains for further explanation. Those two Words convince the reader that, just as the sun that sets will rise again the following morning, life, this world’s “immaterial sun,” will rise to shine permanently on the morning of the Resurrection after it sets with the world’s destruction. At that time, some jinn and human beings will be rewarded with eternal bliss, while the rest will be condemned to eternal torment.

Indeed, the universe’s All-Wise Maker, Who has boundless All-Encompassing Knowledge, limitless universal Will and infinite All-Enveloping Power, the All-Compassionate Creator of human beings, promises in His Scriptures and decrees that believers will enjoy Paradise and eternal happiness. And so it will happen, for He does not break His promises, as doing so is a most ugly fault arising from either ignorance or incompetence. Since the One of Absolute Perfection cannot be sullied by any fault, or the Absolutely Powerful, the All-Knowing One by ignorance and impotence, breaking a promise is impossible.

Moreover, all Prophets, saints, scholars, and believers—above all the Prophet—continually request and entreat the All-Compassionate and Generous One for His promised eternal bliss through His Beautiful Names. Also, His Mercy, Compassion, Justice, and Wisdom (His Names: Merciful, Compassionate, Just, and Wise), as well as most of His other Beautiful Names (e.g., Lord and God) and Attributes (e.g., Lordship and Sovereignty), require the Hereafter and eternal happiness and testify to their reality. The Qur’an, His greatest Revelation, shows and teaches this truth, and Prophet Muhammad, His most beloved, taught it throughout his life and proved it through countless miracles.

O God, bestow blessings and peace and benedictions upon him, his Family and Companions, to the number of the breaths belonging to the people of Paradise in Paradise. Resurrect us and the publishers of this treatise, together with our friends, our companion Said, and our parents and brothers and sisters, under his banner. Grant us his intercession through Your Mercy, and cause us to enter Paradise in the company of his family and Companions, O Most Merciful of the Merciful. Amen. Amen.

Our Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or err. Our Lord, do not make our hearts swerve after You have guided us. Give us the gift of Your Mercy, for You are the Giver of Gifts. My Lord, open my heart and ease my task. Loosen a knot from my tongue so that people may understand my words. Our Lord, turn toward us in forgiveness, for You are the Acceptor of Repentance, the Compassionate. Glory be to You! We have no knowledge save what You have taught us. You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.