and joined partners with Him cling to a single one of Our Names, and are debarred from recognizing Him Who is the Creator of all Names.  We testify that such men are of a truth amongst the people of the Fire.  They ask the sun to expound the words of the shadow, and the True One to explain the utterances of His creatures, could ye but perceive it!  Say:  O people!  The sun offereth naught save the effulgence of its own light and that which appeareth therefrom, whilst all else seek illumination from its rays.  Fear God, and be not of the ignorant!  Among them also were those who inquired of the darkness about the light.  Say:  Open thine eyes, that thou mayest behold the brightness which hath visibly enveloped the earth!  This, verily, is a light which hath risen and shone forth above the horizon of the Dayspring of divine knowledge with manifest radiance.  Would ye ask the Jews whether Jesus was the True One from God, or the idols if Muhammad was an Apostle of His Lord, or inquire from the people of the Qur’an as to Him Who was the Remembrance of God, the Most Exalted, the Most Great?

80 Say:  O people!  Cast away, before the splendours of this Revelation, the things that ye possess, and cleave to that which God hath bidden you observe.  Such is His command unto you, and He, verily, is best able to command.  By My Beauty!  My purpose in revealing these words is to cause all men to draw nigh unto God, the All-Glorious, the All-Praised.  Beware lest ye deal with Me as ye dealt with My Herald.  Do not object, when the verses of God are sent down unto you from the Court of My favour, saying, “these do not proceed from an innate and untaught nature”, for that nature itself hath been created by My word and circleth round Me, if ye be of them that apprehend this truth.  Inhale from the utterances of your Lord, the All-Merciful, the sweet smell of the garment of inner meanings, which hath been diffused throughout the entire creation and hath shed its fragrance over all created things.  Happy are those who perceive it and hasten unto God with radiant hearts.

81 O Living Temple!  We, verily, have made Thee a mirror unto the kingdom of names, that Thou mayest be, amidst all mankind, a sign of My sovereignty, a herald unto My presence, a summoner unto My beauty, and a guide unto My straight and perspicuous Path.  We have exalted Thy Name among Our servants as a bounty from Our presence.  I, verily, am the All-Bountiful, the Ancient of Days.  We have, moreover, adorned Thee with the ornament of Our own Self, and have imparted unto Thee Our Word, that Thou mayest ordain in this contingent world whatsoever Thou willest and accomplish whatsoever Thou pleasest.  We have destined for Thee all the good of the heavens and of the earth, and decreed that none may attain unto a portion thereof unless he entereth beneath Thy shadow, as bidden by Thy Lord, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.  We have conferred upon Thee the Staff of authority and the Writ of judgement, that Thou mayest test the wisdom of every command.  We have caused the oceans of inner meaning and explanation to surge from Thy heart in remembrance of Thy Lord, the God of mercy, that Thou mayest render thanks and praise unto Him and be of those who are truly thankful.  We have singled Thee out from amongst all Our creatures, and have appointed Thee as the Manifestation of Our own Self unto all who are in the heavens and on the earth.