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Chapter 2

Merit of Greatness in Bringing into Being

1. Have you noticed? Such Glorious and Powerful Great Being Who is really the Owner of this Perfection and Majesty, it merits and merited Him that creatures may benefit the Kingdom of unobstructed control and convenient favors which He has in creating and originating of things. So that they may get acquaintance with Him Almighty Being by this means, and they may benefit His Unlimited Graces forever.

2. Have you noticed? That Being possessing all this Power, Greatness and Wisdom Whose Almighty Manifestation of Perfection, Glory and Art and Artistry is clearly seen in everything of exhibition of the world, it merits and merited Him that lots of creatures having capabilities and perceptions, may benefit His Almighty's Favors and Pleasures, and they may acquire Insight into Him Almighty, each according to his ability, by studying these things. That they may still, by thanksgiving verbally and practically for His favors, find closer proximity with Him Almighty.

3. Have you noticed? The Being possessing all this Power, Glory and Perfection, merits and merited Him to create variety of creatures in exposed and hidden and to let them benefit permanently and temporarily from a cloth spread unhindered upon a table that is His Eternal Being. So that on one hand, due to examining the things and consuming the gifts, they may find the various kinds of His Masteries, Power and Favors along with thousands of kinds of His Glory and Perfection in Creativity which is proven from the examination of things. On the other hand, Mankind based on the finding of the secrets of this wealth may accomplish the service to God's creatures, financially, physically and verbally for the sake of His Almighty Happiness. Undoubtedly, with this much insignificant work, still besides the rewards of Heavens and the Favors of that World's Permanent Abode, they will also have the honor of being received in Meeting with Him Almighty. Namely, the Kind, Gracious and Merciful God has opened the Door of His Meeting with the noble creatures of all firmaments¹ in the Permanent Abode (Paradise) by this creativity (Idba') and bringing into existence (Ijaad). Praise be to Glorious God, He is above what they attribute to Him, the Most High and the Most Great!

4. Have you noticed? As we already mentioned, the Being, possessing all this Bounty, Beneficence, Creating, Originating, Bringing into existence, and Accomplishments² of which we actually have not seen yet negligible part, or of what we have seen we have not understood as we ought, it merits Him and He deserved that existents prosper of His Almighty's cloth spread unhindered upon a table and that they may benefit from the favors of that Lordly Court perpetually. Therefore, He created all this system of hidden and exposed world for Man, and He chose Man for acquiring Insight into Him Almighty, and for the decision of taking the path and course of nearness and relationship, whether, he will get attached to other-than-God or in Almighty God and the Artificer of all existents. Man has the free choice to act according to what he decides. There are more secrets and mysteries behind this, you would find them if you ponder.

And the triumph comes from God!

Footnotes:
1 Firmaments: Globes (Aflak)
2 Accomplishments: Ikram, Ihsan, Takhliq, Ibda', Ijad, Kamalat