Likewise, strive thou to comprehend the meaning of the melody of that eternal beauty, Husayn, son of ’Ali, who, addressing Salman, spoke words such as these:  “I was with a thousand Adams, the interval between each and the next Adam was fifty thousand years, and to each one of these I declared the Successorship conferred upon my father.”  He then recounteth certain details, until he saith:  “I have fought one thousand battles in the path of God, the least and most insignificant of which was like the battle of Khaybar, in which battle my father fought and contended against the infidels.”  Endeavour now to apprehend from these two traditions the mysteries of “end,” “return,” and “creation without beginning or end.”

O my beloved!  Immeasurably exalted is the celestial Melody above the strivings of human ear to hear or mind to grasp its mystery!  How can the helpless ant step into the court of the All-Glorious?  And yet, feeble souls, through lack of understanding, reject these abstruse utterances, and question the truth of such traditions.  Nay, none can comprehend them save those that are possessed of an understanding heart.  Say, He is that End for Whom no end in all the universe can be imagined, and for Whom no beginning in the world of creation can be conceived.  Behold, O concourse of the earth, the splendours of the End, revealed in the Manifestations of the Beginning!

How strange!  These people with one hand cling to those verses of the Qur’an and those traditions of the people of certitude which they have found to accord with their inclinations and interests, and with the other reject those which are contrary to their selfish desires.  “Believe ye then part of the Book, and deny part?"(122) How could ye judge that which ye understand not?  Even as the Lord of being hath in His unerring Book, after speaking of the “Seal” in His exalted utterance:  “Muhammad is the Apostle of God and the Seal of the Prophets,"(123) hath revealed unto all people the promise of “attainment unto the divine Presence.”  To this attainment to the presence of the immortal King testify the verses of the Book, some of which We have already mentioned.  The one true God is My witness!  Nothing more exalted or more explicit than “attainment unto the divine Presence” hath been revealed in the Qur’an.  Well is it with him that hath attained thereunto, in the day wherein most of the people, even as ye witness, have turned away therefrom.

And yet, through the mystery of the former verse, they have turned away from the grace promised by the latter, despite the fact that “attainment unto the divine Presence” in the “Day of Resurrection” is explicitly stated in the Book.  It hath been demonstrated and definitely established, through clear evidences, that by “Resurrection” is meant the rise of the Manifestation of God to proclaim His Cause, and by “attainment unto the divine Presence” is meant attainment unto the presence of His Beauty