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Sixteenth window: The order and organization in creation and the
management of creatures, recruited every season on Earth, show a universal
purposiveness and wisdom. Since an attribute cannot be without the one it
qualifies, that universal wisdom shows a Wise One. The wonderful adornment
within that veil of wisdom shows an all‑embracing grace, which shows a Gracious,
Munificent Creator. The all‑encompassing favoring and benevolence within that
veil of grace show an all‑encompassing mercy, which shows an All‑Merciful,
All‑Compassionate One. The sustenance and provision of all living creatures on
that veil of mercy, all perfect and appropriate for their needs, show an
upbringing and training providence and a compassionate Lordship. That training
and administering show an All‑Munificent Provider.
Each creature, having been raised with perfect wisdom, adorned with perfect
graciousness, favored with perfect mercy, and nurtured with perfect caring and
compassion, bears witness to the necessary Existence of an All‑Wise, Munificent,
Compassionate, Providing Maker and points to His Unity. Consider the
all‑encompassing wisdom manifested on Earth, which clearly shows a purpose and
will.
Consider the perfect grace encompassing all creatures in accordance with
wisdom; the all‑embracing mercy comprising both grace and wisdom and touching
all creatures; and the most generous sustaining and nurturing comprising the
mercy, wisdom, and grace touching all living creatures. Just as the seven colors
form the light and the light illuminating Earth shows the sun, so too that grace
within wisdom, mercy within grace, and sustaining and nurturing within mercy
show brilliantly, and on a vast scale and at a high degree, the Unity and
Lordship of a Most Wise, Munificent, Compassionate, Providing, and
Necessarily‑Existent One.
How can you explain this wise as well as compassionate, generous,
providential sustaining and raising; this extraordinary, wonderful, miraculous
state of affairs before your eyes? By random chance and coincidence, blind
force, deaf and mute nature, or by powerless, lifeless, and ignorant causes? By
giving the name of "nature," which is infinitely impotent, ignorant, deaf,
blind, contingent, and helpless, to the All‑Majestic One, Who is infinitely
Powerful, Knowing, Hearing, and Seeing? Do you want to commit such a serious
mistake? How can you extinguish a truth as brilliant as the sun? Under what veil
of heedlessness can you hide it? |