He is the first wave from the ocean of Allah's beauty and love.

He is the first wave from the ocean of Allah's beauty and love. He is of the depths of the sea of nobility, from the Majestic. He is the witness and the witnessed and, by your life, endowed with great eloquence, He is the guide of the path leading to the fortunate abode. From God through him issues the intellect in its entirety.

He is the king of the gathering of those messengers, The completion of the prophets by the divine overflowing from before endless time, The source of light for all the friends of Allah. There is one sole sun which possesses radiance, Although from him many lights of dawn appeared on the horizon. It was that same face of the moon whose light broke though, But it was by him that the twelve came to rejoice in their blessing.

The state of Muhammad issues from the outpourings of the essence, And the family of Muhammad are the nobility of creation. The family of the Prophet are the lords of the two worlds. The family of the Prophet are the keys to the doors of the gardens. The family of the Prophet are the light of His beauty from before time. The family of the Prophet are a source of gnosis which never dries up.

May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them Until the moment the trumpet is sounded on the day of rising. * * * * * * * * The divine decrees come into being in a world other than our own and they are governed by an order and time which is par­ticular to them ‑ such that whenever the will of Allah impinges on this world, then the decree passes from the Tablet of knowledge in the malakut (the invisible world of spirit and angel) to the pages of material forms in the world of men.

Since different manifestations of the divine decrees become visible in this world, we have taken to calling them `events which happen by chance' or `occurrences.' It is because we interpret what happens in relation to ourselves that we react with surprise when the decree of Allah causes something to come into being, or not to come into being, and we become happy or unhappy accordingly. The work before the reader came about in the following man­ner.

One day some years ago one of my friends said that he had purchased a modest library wherein were several handwritten volumes. He asked me to take a look and to choose any book that I found interesting.