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Islamic Scholars And The Signs Leading To Faith
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All of these fruits and the seeds within them are miracles of Divine
wisdom, wonders of Divine art, gifts of Divine mercy, material
proofs of Divine unity, and bearers of the good news that Divine fa-
vors will be granted in the Hereafter. Just as they are all truthful
witnesses to His all-embracing power and knowledge, each of
them is a mirror confirming His unity in all the corners of the world

of multiplicity and in all the parts of the world of this tree, a world
that has become multiple. They turn the gaze from multiplicity to
unity. 21
Thus, if your mind is not submerged in delusions, you will under-
stand that to make a word of power (e.g., a honey-bee) a minute

index of most things, and to write in one page (e.g., a person) most
of the matters in this Book of the Universe, and to include in one
point (e.g., a tiny fig seed), the program of the mighty fig-tree, and
to display in a single letter (e.g., the human heart) the works of all
the Divine Names manifested in the pages of the macrocosm which
encompass it, and to place in the human faculty of memory, which

is situated in a place the size of a lentil, writings enough to fill a li-
brary, and to include in that tiny faculty a detailed index of all
events in the cosmos—to do all of these things is most certainly a
stamp particular to the Creator of All Things, the Glorious
Sustainer of the universe. 22