Nineteenth window: Consider the following verse:

The seven heavens and Earth and all in them glorify Him. There is nothing that does not glorify Him. (17:44)

According to the meaning of this verse, the Majestic Maker has attached so many instances of wisdom and meanings to heavenly bodies that, as if to express His Majesty and Grace, He has adorned the heavens with suns, moons, and stars. He has attached such instances of wisdom and meanings to the creatures in the atmosphere as if to make the atmosphere speak in words like lightning, thunder, and raindrops. He also teaches His perfect Wisdom and His Mercy's beauty.

Just as He makes Earth speak in meaningful words like plants and animals, and thereby shows His art's perfection to the universe, He shows His art's perfection and His Mercy's beauty by making plants and trees speak in their words of leaves, flowers, and fruits. By making flowers and fruits speak in words of seeds and pollen, He teaches the subtleties of His art and His Lordship's perfection to conscious beings. Among these countless words of glorification, we shall consider the manner in which a flower or an ear of wheat expresses its glorification and discover how it bears witness.

Each plant and tree shows its Maker in numerous tongues in a way that amazes observers and causes them to say: "All glory be to God, how excellently it bears witness." Each plant's glorifications when it blossoms and grows ears or spikes—the time when it speaks in smiles—are beautiful like itself and evident. The order or system displaying the wisdom or purposiveness expressed in all flowers' speaking, in the tongues of well‑formed spikes or ears, and in the words of well‑proportioned seeds and well‑made grains, points (in a measure) to knowledge. The measure is in the art's skillful design, which, in turn, is in an adornment showing grace and munificence. The adornment is in agreeable fragrances showing mercy and benevolence. These meaningful states of things, one within the other, form such a tongue of testimony that they define their Majestic Maker with His Names, describe Him with His Attributes, exemplify His Names' manifestations, and express His being loved and recognized.

Hearing such a testimony from a flower, if you can hear the voices of all flowers in all of the Lord's gardens on Earth's face and how powerfully they announce the Majestic Maker's necessary Existence and Unity, how can you have any remaining questions, doubts, and hesitations?

Look at a tree that blossoms in spring. Its leaves are regular, its blossoms proportionate, its fruits grow and ripen in wisdom and mercy, and the tree dances with breezes. Consider its fine expressiveness and exact balance in the wise order shown by the words of fruits smiling with a display of mercy, the tongue of blossoms smiling with a joy of grace, leaves becoming green with a hand of munificence. Consider the delicate arts and designs in the balance showing justice and exact measure, the sweet smells showing mercy and benevolence in skillfully made designs and ornaments, and the seeds and stones, each a miracle of Power in sweet tastes.

Such facts show the necessary Existence and Unity of an All‑Wise Maker, All‑Munificent, All‑Compassionate, All‑Benevolent, Bestower of Bounties, All‑Beautifying, One Making Excellent, and His Mercy's beauty and His Lordship's perfection. If you could hear all the tongues of all trees' dispositions, you would see what beautiful gems there are in the treasury of: Whatever is in the heavens and Earth glorifies God (61: 1).

So, O unfortunate heedless one who supposes yourself to be free to feel ingratitude! If you do not want to recognize an All‑Munificent One of Majesty, Who makes Himself known to you and wills to be loved by you in such innumerable tongues, then these tongues should be silenced. But since they cannot be silenced, you should listen to them. Just closing your ears will not make you indifferent to them or able to escape from them, for the universe does not stop speaking and creatures are not silenced. As testifiers to Divine Unity cannot be silenced, they will condemn you.