The Testimonies of the Space and the Celestial Bodies

All behold them, at all times, with intense wonderment and observe them with great sensitivity and pleasure. It would then be most befitting to start with this radiant page - the heavens.

Yes, every time every single guest, who comes to this world land and guest house, opens his eyes and looks, he sees a banquet hall of surpassing generosity, and an exhibition hall of surpassing artistry, an encampment and training-ground of surpassing splendour and awe, a promenade and a gazing spot, of an unsurpassed ability to engender wonderment and longing, and a place for contemplation replete with deep meanings and wisdom.

While this guest is being passionately curious about knowing and gaining true knowledge about the Owner of this beautiful guest house, the Author of this great book, and the Sultan of this awe-inspiring land, the beautiful face of the space inscribed with the gilding of light appears to him and says: ‘Look at me! I will give you news of that which you are looking for’.

He looks, and sees the framework of a reality, in which subjugation, direction, the causation of motion, organisation, purification, and appointment were all manifest. All were witnessed within a manifestation of lordship (rubūbiyyah) in which hundreds of thousands of celestial bodies, some of which are a thousand times greater than the earth, are rotated, without any prop or support - they are never allowed to fall. Some of these great bodies move seventy times faster than a cannonball. They are all driven along at high speeds, without their ever colliding. This manifestation of lordship (rubūbiyyah) continuously fuels these innumerable lights, yet without oil and without them ever being extinguished. 

It directs these extraordinary, vast masses, without a clamour, and without any deficiency or disorder. It uses these vast creations in particular tasks, just like the tasks of the sun and the moon, without any rebellion taking place.

It unrestrictedly acts within the same time, same power, same way, same seal of disposition, and same form, each one of them together, without any blemish, across distances endlessly great such that calculation cannot delimit it between the sphere of the two poles. It subjects those extraordinary, vast masses to their corresponding laws, those masses that carry exceedingly high energies without ever exceeding the bounds.

This manifestation of lordship (rubūbiyyah) brilliantly and beautifully makes the face of the sky to be clean, and not allowing sweepings such as the wreckage of that endless crowdedness to dirty it. It drives those great masses along in operations that resemble the military manoeuvres of a regular army. Through its rotation of the earth, it presents to its audience of creatures the vision of sublime manoeuvres, of types both real and imagined and within different forms, as if it is the [different] screenings within a cinema every night and every year.

This sublime and all-encompassing reality [that is made up of subjugation, direction, the causation of motion, organisation, purification, and appointment] is then an eyewitness to the necessity of the existence of a Creator of these heavens, as well as that of His unicity (waḥdah). It witnesses that His existence is in fact more apparent than that of the heavens themselves.

Regarding this meaning it has been mentioned in ‘The First Level’ of ‘The First Station’: