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“O thou who art uttering the praise of God!…” |
Verily I read thy letter, which expressed thy surprise
at some of the commandments of the law of God, such
as that concerning the hunting of innocent animals.
Be not surprised at this. Ponder over the contingent
realities, their mysteries, wisdom, connection and relations.
The world is harmonious in all things and the
connection therein is mighty and nothing is missing.
All things are eaters and eaten in the physical creation.
The plant sucks from the mineral, the animal eats and
swallows the plant, and the human eats the animal.
Then the mineral (in turn) eats the human body.
Physical bodies are transferred from death to death and
life to life. Therefore, all things are subject to transfer
and change except the Cause of existence, which
cannot be changed or transferred, because it is the
foundation for life in all kinds and species and in all
possible realities in the world of creation.
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If thou observest closely through a microscope the
water which man drinks and the air which he breathes,
thou wilt see that in every breath which man breathes,
that breath contains numerous animals, and in every
draught of water great number of animals exist. This
could not be prevented because the existent beings are
eaters and eaten and, by this, existence is caused; otherwise,
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the relations between existent things would cease.
When a thing decomposes and decays, being bereft of
life, it becomes promoted to a world of life greater than
the former. For instance, it ceased in a mineral life
and was promoted to the vegetable life; then leaves the
vegetable life and is elevated to that of the animal;
then leaving the animal life it advances to the human,
and this is on account of the favor of thy Lord, the
Merciful, the Clement.
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I ask God to strengthen thee in comprehending the
mysteries deposited in the reality of existence, to lift
up the veil before thee and thy sister, so that the
concealed mystery and the hidden reality become manifest
as the sun at noon, and to confirm thy sister and thy
husband in entering the Kingdom of God, and heal thee
from all physical and spiritual disease in the world of
creation.
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