All praise be unto God, Who hath created realities that are
paired through the mutual encounter of the divine names and attributes, that
are comprised of both existence and essence, and that derive their grace from
states that are opposite yet compatible and from facing mirrors that form
complementary reflections. “Glory be to
Him Who hath created all the pairs, of such things as the earth produceth, and
of themselves, and of things beyond their ken”, [Qur’án 36:36] and hath made
the human reality to be a wellspring of blessings and a fountainhead of
abundant increase in the world of being.
The inner realities of all things proceeded from the encounter of the most
excellent names, and the contest of the most exalted attributes. They married, assembled, gathered,
harmonized, united, and attained unto completion and perfection—whereupon,
within the essences of the realities derived therefrom, the effulgence of primal
oneness shone resplendent.
Within these mysteries lieth an inscrutable wisdom—a wisdom
through which God’s laws and ordinances have been revealed in the Sacred
Scriptures. Unto God belongeth supreme
authority, irrefutable proofs, all-swaying sovereignty, consummate might, and
all-encompassing powers of attraction.
Blessing and praise rest upon that Reality that joineth
together the spiritual realities and subtle particulars of the universe—that
mighty Bridge, that all-bountiful Link, that Confluence of the two seas and
Meeting-Place of the two shores, that Day-Star of the “two Easts” and Light of
the “two Wests” [Cf. Qur’án 55:17] —upon that Blessed Tree and its branches,
its leaves, its blossoms, and its fruits, and upon all those who have sought shelter
within its shade and taken refuge beneath its outspread boughs.
