The Prophets

لاَ إِلٰهَ إِلَّا اللهُ الوَاجِبُ الوُجُودِ الَّذِي دَلَّ عَلَى وُجُوبِ وُجُودِهِ فِي وَحْدَتِهِ

اتِّفَاقُ جَمِيعِ أَنْوَاعِ الحَيْوَانَاتِ وَالطُّيُورِ الحَامِدَاتِ الشَّاهِدَاتِ بِكَلِمَاتِ حَوَاسِّهَا

وَقُوَاهَا وَحِسِّيِّاتِهَا وَلَطَائِفِهَا المَوْزُونَاتِ المُنْتَظمَةِ الفَصِيحَاتِ وَبِكَلِمَاتِ

جِهَازَاتِهَا وَجَوَارِحِهَا وَأَعْضَائِهَا وَآلاَتِهَا المُكَمَّلاَتِ البَلِيغَاتِ بِشَهَادَةِ

عَظَمَةِ إِحَاطَةِ حَقِيقَةِ الإِيجَادِ وَالصُّنْعِ وَالإِبْدَاعِ بِالإِرَادَةِ وَحَقِيقَةِ التَّمْيِيزِ

وَالتَّزْيِينِ بِالقَصْدِ وَحَقِيقَةِ التّقْدِيرِ وَالتَّصْوِيرِ بِالحِكْمَةِ مَعَ قَطْعِيَّةِ دَلاَلَةِ

حَقِيقَةِ فَتْحِ جَمِيعِ صُوَرِهَا المُنْتَظمَةِ المُتَخَالِفَةِ المُتَنَوِّعَةِ غَيْرِ المَحْصُورَةِ

مِنْ بَيْضَاتٍ وَقَطَرَاتٍ مُتَمَاثِلَةٍ مُتَشَابِهَةٍ مَحْصُورَةٍ مَحْدُودَةٍ

There is no god but Allāh, the Necessary Being. The consensus

of every species of praising, testifying animals and birds, speaking

with the words of their well-proportioned, articulate, ordered senses,

abilities, sensitivities and subtleties, and with the words of their perfected,

eloquent limbs, systems and tools, by the testimony of the sublimity of

the all-encompassing realities of origination, creation by volition, conscious

distinction and ornamentation, wise specification and shaping, with the conclusiveness

of the evidence given by the reality of the opening and disclosure of all of their endless,

varied forms, all of this from mere identical, limited, restricted eggs and droplets.

When that contemplative traveller wished, in order to progress more and more through the limitless levels of Divine knowledge (ma‘rifah), their endless tastes and countless lights, to enter into the realm of human beings, the first to invite him to their world were the prophets (‘alayhimussalām). He entered, and looked first at the phases of the past. He saw that all of the prophets and messengers, 

who are the most illumined and perfect of men, together remember Allāh, saying لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُو ‘there is no god but Him’.

They assert the Divine unity (tawḥīd) on the strength of limitless extraordinary, bright and certified miracles, and by inviting people to faith in Allāh. They teach them, in order to raise them up from the level of animals to the station of the angels.

He sat on his knees in this illumined school, and took part in the lesson. For in the hands of each of the teachers, who constitute the greatest, most renowned of humankind, are miracles, as signs of veracity, bestowed from the presence of the Creator of the universe. Through the message of each prophet, a great community of people and nation acknowledged and became believers. He was able to perceive how this reality - that a hundred thousand serious, truthful people had judged in favour of and given credence to by consensus and agreement - is powerful and conclusive.

He understood how the people of misguidance (ahlu’ḍ-ḍalālah) truly commit a mistake and crime of limitless evil, and deserve a limitless punishment. For they deny the reality that has been endorsed and established in a most powerful way, through their limitless miracles, by this great number of truthful reporters. He understood too that those who had given credence to them and believed them are right and they have the truth. And then, another great level of the sanctity of faith appeared to him.

Indeed, the limitless miracles from Allāh the Exalted that amount to practical confirmation of the prophets as well as the great many Heavenly blows that befell their opponents, which signified their truthfulness,