Tadhkirah — Page 286
286 1893 My Lord has commanded me from heaven that: 333 333 [Arabic] Construct the ark under Our supervision and according to Our revelation. Stand up and warn [people about the impending calamities] for you have been commissioned to warn people whose ancestors have not been warned and so that the way of the guilty ones might be fully exposed. We have made you Mas ih Ibn-e-Maryam [Messiah, son of Mary], so as to perfect My warning for those who have adopted Christianity. Say: This is the grace of my Lord and I shun all kinds of titles. I have been commissioned by Allah and I am the first of the believers. He watches the times and knows well their requirements. He has large stores of everything with Him. When He determines upon a thing He directs it to ‘Be’; and it is. Say: Do you wonder at what God does? Say: Allah is the Most Wonderful of all who are wonderful. He exalts whom He wills and abases whom He wills; He bestows honour on whom He wills and humiliates whom He wills and chooses for Himself whom He wills. He is not called to account concerning that which He does