The Second Note

In a dream containing certain hidden truths, I saw myself saying to people: “O human being! It is among the principles of the Qur’an that you should not regard anything other than Allah as superior to yourself in such a way that you worship it. Nor should you regard yourself as so superior to others that you become arrogant. For just as all creatures are equally unworthy of being worshipped, so too they are equal in that they are all created.”

The Third Note

O heedless Said! Know that, because of your mistaken perception, you regard this utterly transient world as everlasting and stable. Since, when you look at the world, you see it in a certain sense as enduring and fixed, you also regard yourself as stable, despite the fact that you are transient. Thus you fear only the end of the world, as though you would live until the end of the world itself.

Beware! You and your particular world are at every moment subject to transience and exposed to the threat of destruction. Your mistaken perception and self-deception are like the following:

Suppose you hold a small mirror and turn it toward a house, a city, or a garden. In the mirror you see a similar house, city, or garden reflected. Even the slightest movement or change may cause disorder and confusion in the reflection of that house, city, and garden within the mirror. The continued existence and stability of the real house, city, and garden in the outer world cannot prevent this disorder and confusion. For the house, city, and garden in the mirror are entirely dependent on the position and relation of the mirror.

Your life functions as such a mirror. The support, mirror, and centre of your world are your life. Since it is possible at every moment for that house, that city, and that garden to pass away and be destroyed, your world may collapse and your personal end may come at any moment.

Since this is the truth, do not burden your life and your world with loads they cannot bear or endure.

The Fourth Note

Know that, for the most part, it is the custom of Fātir-i HakīmAllah, Who creates all things from nothing with perfect wisdom. to restore important and valuable things in their very same form. In other words, through the change of the seasons and the passage of centuries, He renews the most valuable creatures with their likenesses and restores them through counterparts of the same kind. This Divine custom is observable in all the daily, yearly, and century-long changes and renewals of creatures that come about as a kind of minor resurrection.

Indeed, on the basis of this established principle, we say the following:

According to the unanimity of knowledge and its declarations, the most excellent fruit of the tree of creation is the human being. Among creatures, the human being is the most important and possesses the highest value. Moreover, a single human individual is equal to an entire species within the animal realm. From this it may be concluded with absolute certainty that every individual human being will, at the Resurrection, rise again with his body, his name, and his form.