Nature, Form, Secret, and Perfection of the Happiness of Life

It is an index of wonders pertaining to the divine names; a scale for measuring the divine qualities and attributes; a balance of the worlds within the universe; a list of the mighty world; a map of the cosmos; a summary of the vast book of the universe; a bunch of keys with which to open the hidden treasuries of divine power; and a most excellent pattern of the perfections scattered over beings and attached to time. The nature of your life consists of matters like these.

Now, the form of your life and the manner of its duty is this: your life is an inscribed word, a wisdom-displaying word written by the pen of power. Seen and heard, it points to the divine names. The form of your life consists of matters like these. Now the true meaning of your life is this: its acting as a mirror to the manifestation of divine oneness and the manifestation of eternal besoughtedness. That is to say, by virtue of the comprehensiveness arising from being like the point of focus for all the divine names manifested in the world, it is its being a mirror to the Single and Eternally Besought One.

Now, as for the perfection of your life, it is to perceive the lights of the Pre-Eternal Sun which are depicted in the mirror of your life, and to love them. As a conscious being, it is to display ardour for Him. It is to pass beyond yourself with love of Him. It is to establish the reflection of His light in the centre of your heart. It is due to this mystery that the Sacred Hadith was uttered, which is expressed by the following lines, and will raise you to the highest of the high:

مَنْ نَه گُنْجَمْ دَرْ سَمٰوَات و زَم۪ينْ ٭ اَزْ عَجَبْ گُنْجَمْ بَقَلْبِ مُؤْمِن۪ينْ

The heavens and the earth contain me not;

Yet, how strange! I am contained in the hearts of believers. {[*]: See, al-'Ajlûnî, Kashf al-Khafâ', ii, 165; al-Ghazâlî, Ihyâ' 'Ulûm al-Dîn, iii, 14.}