The Miraculousness And Testimony Of The Quran 17th Degree Summary Of The Lesson Of Divine Unity

Thus, in brief allusion to the instruction in belief and Divine unity that the traveller received from the Qur'an, it was said in the Seventeeth Degree of the First Station:

لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللّٰهُ الْوَاجِبُ الْوُجُودِ اَلْوَاحِدُ الْاَحَدُ الَّذ۪ى دَلَّ عَلٰى وُجُوبِ وُجُودِهِ ف۪ى وَحْدَتِهِ الْقُرْاٰنُ الْمُعْجِزُ الْبَيَانِ اَلْمَقْبُولُ الْمَرْغُوبُ لِاَجْنَاسِ الْمَلَكِ وَ الْاِنْسِ وَ الْجَٓانِّ اَلْمَقْرُوءُ كُلُّ اٰيَاتِهِ ف۪ى كُلِّ دَق۪يقَةٍ بِكَمَالِ الْاِحْتِرَامِ بِاَلْسِنَةِ مِاٰتِ مِلْيُونٍ مِنْ نَوْعِ الْاِنْسَانِ الدَّائِمُ سَلْطَنَتُهُ الْقُدْسِيَّةُ عَلٰى اَقْطَارِ الْاَرْضِ وَ الْاَكْوَانِ وَ عَلٰى وُجُوهِ الْاَعْصَارِ وَ الزَّمَانِ وَ الْجَار۪ى حَاكِمِيَّتُهُ الْمَعْنَوِيَّةُ النُّورَانِيَّةُ عَلٰى نِصْفِ الْاَرْضِ وَ خُمُسِ الْبَشَرِ ف۪ى اَرْبَعَةَ عَشَرَ عَصْرًا بِكَمَالِ الْاِحْتِشَامِ .. وَ كَذَا شَهِدَ وَ بَرْهَنَ بِاِجْمَاعِ سُوَرِهِ الْقُدْسِيَّةِ السَّمَاوِيَّةِ وَ بِاِتِّفَاقِ اٰيَاتِهِ النُّورَانِيَّةِ الْاِلٰهِيَّةِ وَ بِتَوَافُقِ اَسْرَارِهِ وَ اَنْوَارِهِ وَ بِتَطَابُقِ حَقَائِقِهِ وَ ثَمَرَاتِهِ وَ اٰثَارِهِ بِالْمُشَاهَدَةِ وَ الْعَيَانِ There is no god but Allah, the One and Unique Necessary Existent, to Whose Necessary Existence in Unity points the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition, the book accepted and desired by all species of angel, men and jinn, whose verses are read each minute of the year, with the utmost reverence, by hundreds of millions of men, whose sacred sovereignty over the regions of the earth and the universe and the face of time is permanent, whose spiritual and luminous authority has run over half the earth and a fifth of humanity, for more than fourteen centuries, with the utmost splendour. Testimony and proof is also given by the unanimity of its sacred and heavenly suras, the agreement of its luminous, divine verses, the congruence of its mysteries and lights, the correspondence of its fruits and effects, by witnessing and clear vision.

Our traveller, our voyager through life, knew now that faith is the most precious capital man can have, for it bestows on indigent man not some transient and ephemeral field or dwelling, but a palace, indeed an eternal kingdom as vast as the whole cosmos or the world itself. Faith also bestows on ephemeral man all he will need for life eternal; delivers from eternal annihilation wretched man who waits on the gallows for the arrival of fate; and opens to man an eternal treasury of everlasting felicity. The traveller then said to himself: