Straight İntellects And Sound Hearts 12th 13th Degrees The Agreement Of Sound Hearts İn Unveiling And Witnessing

Beginning his study, he saw that the belief and firm conviction concerning the Divine unity that all luminous intellects possessed, despite their varying capacities and differing, even opposing, methods and outlooks, was the same, and that their steadfast and confident certainty and assurance was one. They had, therefore, to be relying on a single, unchanging truth; their roots were sunk in a profound truth and could not be plucked out. Their unanimity concerning faith, the necessary existence and unity of Allah, was an unbreakable and luminous chain, a brightly lit window opening onto the world of the truth.

He saw also that the unanimous, assured and sublime unveilings and witnessings of the pillars of belief enjoyed by all those sound and luminous intellects, whose methods were various and outlooks divergent, corresponded to and agreed with each other on the matter of the Divine unity. All those luminous hearts, turned and joined to the truth and manifesting it, each a small throne of dominical knowledge, a comprehensive mirror of Allah's Eternal Besoughtedness, were like so many windows opened onto the Sun of the Truth. Taken together, they were like a supreme mirror, like an ocean reflecting the sun. Their agreement and unanimity concerning the necessary existence and unity of Allah was an unfailing and reliable most perfect guide, most elevated preceptor. For it is in no way possible or conceivable that a supposition other than the truth, an untrue thought, a false attribute, should so consistently and decisively be able to deceive simultaneously so many sharp eyes, or to induce illusion in them. Not even the foolish Sophists, who deny the cosmos, would agree with the corrupt and dissipated intellect that held such a thing possible. All of this our traveller understood, and he said, together with his own intellect and heart, "I have believed in Allah."

In brief allusion to the benefit derived from upright intellects and luminous hearts by our traveller, for knowledge of belief, we said in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Degrees of the First Station:

لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللّٰهُ الْوَاجِبُ الْوُجُودِ الَّذ۪ى دَلَّ عَلٰى وُجُوبِ وُجُودِهِ ف۪ى وَحْدَتِهِ اِجْمَاعُ الْعُقُولِ الْمُسْتَق۪يمَةِ الْمُنَوَّرَةِ بِاِعْتِقَادَاتِهَا الْمُتَوَافِقَةِ وَ بِقَنَاعَاتِهَا وَ يَق۪ينِيَّاتِهَا الْمُتَطَابِقَةِ مَعَ تَخَالُفِ الْاِسْتِعْدَادَاتِ وَ الْمَذَاهِبِ وَ كَذَا دَلَّ عَلٰى وُجُوبِ وُجُودِهِ ف۪ى وَحْدَتِهِ اِتِّفَاقُ الْقُلُوبِ السَّل۪يمَةِ النُّورَانِيَّةِ بِكَشْفِيَّاتِهَا الْمُتَطَابِقَةِ وَ بِمُشَاهَدَاتِهَا الْمُتَوَافِقَةِ مَعَ تَبَايُنِ الْمَسَالِكِ وَ الْمَشَارِبِ

There is no god but Allah, to Whose Necessary Existence in Unity points the consensus of all upright intellects, illumined with congruent beliefs and corresponding convictions and certainties, despite differences in capacity and outlook. There also points to His Necessary Existence in Unity the agreement of all sound, luminous hearts, with their mutually corresponding unveilings and their congruent witnessings, despite differences in method and manner.