Second phrase:

(He is) One states God’s Oneness at the level of His Unity’s explicit manifestation. The following proves this level decisively. When we gaze upon the universe, the first thing we notice is the perfect order and sensitive balance prevalent throughout it. Everything exists within a precise order and a delicate balance and measure. Looking closer, we notice a continuous ordering and balancing. Someone continually revitalizes this order with perfect regularity and precise measurements. Everything is, as it were, a model to be dressed in countless well-ordered and balanced forms.

Studying it even closer, we notice a wisdom and justice behind that ordering and balancing. Every event has a purpose, and each one provides a benefit. A still-closer look indicates the existence of a power behind the wholly wise activity in all that we see, as well as a comprehensive knowledge encompassing everything with all its aspects and functions. Taken together, these reveal that an All-Powerful and All-Knowing One operates behind veils of order and balance, One Who orders everything according to a most sensitive balance and for a universal purpose and justice.

When we analyze the beginning and end of all things, especially of living creatures, we observe that their seeds appear to contain all of those creatures’ parts and structures. Their fruits hold the creatures’ meanings, as well as their recorded life-histories, in a filtered and concentrated form. The seeds might even be said to be coded collections of the principles according to which they are created; their fruits an index of the commands of their creation and growth.

When we look into the outer and inner faces of living creatures, we easily see an extremely wise power’s free control and an effective will’s fashioning and ordering. The power creates, and the will designs and fashions. All of them display, on account of their beginning, a Knowledge’s instructions; on account of their end, a Maker’s plan and declaration; on account of their outer forms, an artistic, well-made garment that the One Who does whatever He wills tells them to wear; and, on account of their inner forms, an All-Powerful One’s well-ordered machinery.

Given this, no time, place, or thing is beyond the grasp of the One Majestic Maker’s Power. The Power of an All-Powerful Possessor of Will organizes and directs all things and their functions. The ordering and grace of One All-Merciful and All-Compassionate makes them beautiful, and the One All-Affectionate and All-Bounteous embellishes them with ornaments. Those who are alert can see the order and balance, and the clearly visible acts of ordering and balancing, all of which  demonstrate, together with His absolute Unity, One Who is Single, Unique, Sole, All-Powerful, Possessing of Will, All-Knowing, and All-Wise.

Everything contains an aspect of unity, and unity points to One. For example, the world is illuminated by one lamp (the sun), and so the world’s Owner is One. All of Earth’s living creatures are served with air, fire, and water, each of which is one and simple (not compound). That being so, the One Who employs and subjugates them to us is also One.