Elucidation of Objectives — Page 46
Tau di h-e-Mar a m 46 secrets and verities, they continue to exclaim: "We are far from knowing You. " Just as the expanse of the heavens is full of shining stars, so is he—the Perfect Man—endowed with many highly luminous qualities. Also, his person bears resemblance to a rich and fertile soil. A good rich top quality soil in which seeds are sown, with adequate ploughing and by meeting all requirements of irrigation, farming and toil, yields a thousand times more harvest than other soils. What is more, its fruit as compared to other fruits, in quality and quantity, is extremely fine, sweet and delicious. Similar is the case of the person of the Perfect Man. Planted as he is by Divine imperatives, the saplings of his good deeds sprout forth with a rare kind of verdure and greenery. The fruit they bear are superfine and deli- cious, so much so that the beholder is reminded of the Holy Dominion of God Almighty and involuntarily proclaims: 56 Indeed the verse: 57 clearly testifies that the Perfect Man in quality and connotation is a universe of his own and contains, in miniature, the qualities and characteristics of the macro- universe. God Almighty first recounts the characteristic qualities of the Sun and then, by implication, of all 56 All a h, Holy art Thou; glory be to Thy name. [Translator] 57 The Qur’ a n 91:8 [Translator]