The Third Aspect

Look at the lofty wisdom and order with which all affairs are conducted, and at the absolute justice and balance with which everything is governed. The principles of governance require that those who seek the protection of the state be received with favour. And justice requires that the rights of the subjects be safeguarded, so that the dignity of the state and the splendour of its dominion suffer no harm.

Yet in this land, scarcely one thousandth of what such wisdom and justice require is carried out. Most people blinded by negligence, like you, leave this land without being punished. This indicates that their reckoning is being left entirely to a court of ultimate judgment.  

The Fourth Aspect

Look at these uniquely beautiful jewels in these countless and boundless exhibitions, and at these unique foods laid out like a banquet. They show that the ruler of this land possesses boundless generosity and inexhaustible treasures.

Yet such generosity and inexhaustible treasures require a continuous banquet in which everything one could desire is found. Moreover, it is fitting that those who have tasted the pleasure of this banquet should also be able to take part in it continuously, so that they are not struck by the pain arising from decline or separation. For just as the ending of pain brings pleasure, so too the ending of pleasure brings pain.

Look carefully at these exhibitions, reflect deeply on these proclamations, and listen attentively to the messengers. They present and display the works of art of a wonder-working ruler, point to his perfection, proclaim his unique spiritual beauty, and make everyone aware of the subtlety of his hidden splendor. This means that he possesses a most important and astonishing perfection and spiritual beauty. 

This flawless hidden perfection requires one who will appreciate and admire it and respond with “MāshāAllāhAn expression meaning “What Allah has willed,” used to express admiration or appreciation while acknowledging Allah’s will..” And this hidden and incomparable beauty wants to see and to be seen. In other words, it wants to behold itself in two ways. The first is that it wants to behold itself in various mirrors, and the second is that it wants to behold itself through the seeing of enraptured spectators and astounded admirers. It wants both to see and to be seen, to behold continually and to be beheld continuously.

Moreover, this eternal beauty wants the eternal existence of enraptured spectators and astounded admirers. For a unique beauty cannot be satisfied with a perishable admirer. Indeed, the love of a perishable spectator turns into hostility through the thought of disappearance, and his admiration and appreciation into contempt. Truly, man is hostile toward what he does not know or cannot reach. Everyone leaves this residence very quickly, having seen only a glimpse or a faint shadow of that perfection and beauty, without being satisfied in the slightest. This means that one departs toward a residence where he will behold that perfection and beauty continuously.