The Fourth Point

As indicated in The Tenth Word, no conscious being could accept that an All-Wise Schepper and supremely wise Builder, Who pursues hundreds of wise purposes with the utmost care in every stone of a palace, would then leave that same palace without a roof and allow it to fall into ruin for no purpose, thereby bringing all those countless wise purposes to nothing.

Nor is it in any way conceivable that the Absolutely All-Wise One, Who brings forth countless benefits, purposes, and wise designs from an exceedingly small seed with the greatest care, would then assign to an enormous tree, as large as a mountain, merely one insignificant benefit, one small purpose, or a single fruit, despite the immense cost of the entire tree. For that would be wasteful folly, utterly contrary to His perfect wisdom, and is therefore inconceivable.

In precisely the same way, it is impossible that an All-Wise Creator, Who has assigned hundreds of wise purposes to every creature in this palace of the universe and entrusted each with hundreds of duties—Who has even bestowed upon every tree as many wise purposes as it has fruits and as many duties as it has flowers—would allow all these countless wise purposes and endless duties to be lost, rendering them meaningless, purposeless, empty, and fruitless, by failing to bring about the end of the world and the Resurrection.

That would mean attributing absolute impotence to the infinite power of the Absolutely Powerful One; boundless absurdity and futility to the perfect wisdom of the Absolutely All-Wise One; infinite ugliness to the beauty of the mercy of the Absolutely Merciful One; and infinite injustice to the flawless justice of the Absolutely Just One.

It would be tantamount to denying the wisdom, mercy and justice that are manifest throughout the universe for all to see. This is a most extraordinary impossibility, entailing countless absurdities.

Let the people of misguidance come and see how their own misguidance, like the grave they contemplate and towards which they are heading, is a realm of terrifying darkness, a deep pit infested with snakes and scorpions. And let them recognise that belief in the Hereafter is a beautiful and luminous path, like Paradise itself, and embrace īmānFaith; belief in the six articles of faith: Allah, His angels, His revealed scriptures, His prophets, the Hereafter, and divine decree (qadar)..

The Fifth Point

This consists of two matters.

The First Matter

As required by His Name al-HakīmAllah, the All-Wise, Whose wisdom is infinite., the Sāni-i Dhul-JalālAllah, Who creates with perfect artistry and Whose greatness and majesty are boundless. demonstrates that, in all things, He follows with the greatest care the lightest form, the shortest path, the easiest manner and the most beneficial arrangement. This shows that wastefulness, purposelessness and futility have no place in creation. For just as wastefulness is contrary to His Name al-HakīmAllah, the All-Wise, Whose wisdom is infinite., so frugality is its necessary consequence and fundamental principle.