Eleven Glad Tidings For Humanity

“O helpless people! When you move to the grave, do not despair and lament, saying: ‘Alas! Our possessions have been destroyed and all our efforts have gone to waste. We have left this beautiful, vast world and have been buried in a narrow piece of earth.’ For all your actions are preserved, all your deeds are written down, and all your services are recorded. Dhāt-i Dhul-Jalāl, Who will reward your services, in Whose hand is all good, and Who can bring all good into being, invites you to Himself and causes you to remain temporarily beneath the earth. Afterwards, He will admit you into His presence. How glad it is for you that you have completed your services and duties. You have finished your task and will now enter rest and mercy. Your services and efforts have ended; you are departing to receive your reward.

Indeed, Qadīr-i Dhul-Jalāl, Who preserves the seeds that serve as the pages of the records of deeds and the storehouses of the services of the past spring, and causes them in the coming spring to sprout and unfold again in an exceptionally splendid way, will certainly preserve the results of your lives in the same way and will reward your services abundantly.”

The Tenth Phrase

وَ هُوَ عَلٰى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدٖيرٌ

In other words, He is the One and Only; He has power over all things. Nothing is difficult for Him. The creation of spring is as easy for Him as the creation of a flower, and the creation of Paradise is as effortless as the creation of spring. The infinitely many artful creatures that He creates every day, every year, and every century testify with countless tongues to His infinite power. This phrase brings the following glad tiding:

“O human being! The service you perform and the worship you carry out are not in vain. A place of reward, a land of bliss, has been prepared for you. In place of this transient world, an eternal Paradise awaits you. Trust in the promise of the Glorious Creator Whom you worship and know. It is impossible for Him to break His promise. His power contains no deficiency in any respect. No impotence can enter into His acts. Just as He creates your small garden, so too He can create Paradise for you; indeed, He has created it and promised it to you. And since He has promised it, He will certainly admit you into it.

Indeed, we see that every year, with perfect order and balance, with utmost speed and ease, He brings back into existence and life more than three hundred thousand species of plants and animals upon the earth. Such a Qadīr-i Dhul-Jalāl is certainly able to fulfill His promise.

Since Qadīr-i Mutlaq creates thousands of examples every year of the resurrection and of Paradise; and since through all His heavenly decrees He promises eternal bliss and Paradise; and since all His acts are true and real, sincere and serious; and since all the perfections visible in His creatures and works point to and testify to His infinite perfection, while there are no faults or defects in Him; and since falsehood, lying, deception, and breaking a promise are among the most disgraceful qualities, defects, and shortcomings, Qadīr-i Dhul-Jalāl, Hakīm-i Dhul-Kamāl, Rahīm-i Dhul-Jamāl will most certainly fulfill His promise, open the gate of eternal bliss, and admit you, O believers, into Paradise, the original homeland of your father Ādam (as).”