Seventh truth: The gate of Protection and Preservation, the manifestation of the Names the All‑Preserver and the Guardian. Is it conceivable that God’s attribute of Preserver, protecting within absolute orderliness and equilibrium everything that exists, and sifting and accounting their consequences, would allow the acts of His noble vicegerent, who bears the Supreme Trust, to go unrecorded, unsifted and unaccounted, unweighed in the balance of justice, unpunished or unrewarded fittingly, even though his acts relate so closely to God’s universal Lordship?[1]·No, it is not.

The Being Who administers this cosmos preserves all things in an order and balance that manifest His Knowledge and Wisdom, Will and Power. We see that the substance of every created thing, and all its subsequent individual forms and in their totality, are fashioned in perfect (and pleasing, symmetrical) orderliness. Moreover, the Majestic Preserver preserves many forms of things that perish after finishing their duties and departing, in people’s memories, which are like a Supreme Guarded Tablet or archetypal mirror.[2]·He inscribes a compact life‑history in a seed (that life’s issue and outcome). Thus He causes all things to be preserved in mirrors corresponding to outer and inner worlds. Human memories, a tree’s fruit, a fruit’s kernel, a flower’s seed—all manifest the law of preservation’s universality and inclusiveness.

Have you not seen how the records of the deeds of all spring flowers and fruits, laws of their formation, and images of their forms are all inscribed within a minute seed and there preserved? The following spring, those records are opened—a bringing to account appropriate to them—and another vast world of spring emerges with absolute orderliness and wisdom. This shows the powerful and comprehensive exercise of the Divine Attribute of Preserver. Considering that the issue of such transient, commonplace, and insignificant things is preserved, how could our deeds, which (from the viewpoint of universal Lordship) yield important fruit in the Unseen world, the Hereafter, and the World of Spirits, not be preserved and recorded as a matter of high significance?

This comprehensive preserving shows us what great care the Master of creation devotes to the orderliness of everything that occurs under His Rule. He is absolutely attentive to the function of being Sovereign and Sustainer and Lord. Therefore He records, or causes to be recorded, the least event and smallest service and preserves everything’s form in numerous records. This attribute of Preserver indicates that the records of our deeds will be laid open and closely scrutinized and weighed.

Ennobled with God’s vicegerency and Trust, we are witnesses to the universality of His being Lord and proclaim His Unity in this Realm of Multiplicity. Thus we act as controls and witnesses who enjoy a share in His glorification and the worship of most beings. How can we do all of this and then be consigned to an endless sleep in the grave, never to be roused and questioned about what we did? Without a doubt, we will travel to the Plain of Resurrection and be tried at the Supreme Tribunal.

[1] God’s vicegerency means that humanity is the “means” God “uses” to execute His commands on Earth and that we rule it according to His laws. The Supreme Trust is our ego, which has been equipped, relatively, with all manifestations of Divine Names and Attributes. Also, see The Thirtieth Word. (Tr.)

[2] See footnote 23.

[3] The past consists of events. Every day, year, and century that came into being is like a line, a page, and a book inscribed by the Pen of Destiny. Divine Power inscribes Its miraculous works in it in perfect wisdom and orderliness. Similarly, the future, from now until the Resurrection, Paradise, and eternity, consists entirely of contingencies. Comparing these two, we understand with certainty that the Being Who created yesterday and its creatures can create tomorrow and its creatures. As  past wonders are the miraculous works of a Powerful and Majestic One, they affirm that He can create the future and its contingencies and show its wonders.

The One Who creates an apple certainly can create all apples and bring spring into being. Equally, one who cannot create spring cannot create a single apple, for they are made at the same workbench. Each apple is a miniature example of a tree, a garden, or a cosmos. Its seed carries within itself the tree’s life-history, and displays such perfect artistry that it is a miracle created by the One Who can do anything. Likewise, the One Who creates today can create the Day of Resurrection, and only He Who can create spring can create the Resurrection. The One Who threads all past events on the ribbon of time and displays them there in perfect wisdom and order can attach other beings to the ribbon of the future and display them there. In several treatises of The Words, we proved that the One Who can create one thing can create everything. Also, if everything’s creation is attributed to a Single Being, their creation becomes as easy as creating one thing. But if creation is attributed to multiple agents or causes, the creation of one thing is as hard as creating everything. As a result, it borders on the impossible.