Understanding Salat — Page 68
Understanding S al A t 68 Explaining the qualities of S ū rah al-F ā ti h ah, the Promised Messiah as said, It should be clear that if a discourse fully resembles something from among the things that have pro- ceeded from God and are the handiwork of His power of creation—that is to say, it combines in it the external and internal wonders in the same way that they exist in something that has been created by God—it can then be said that such a discourse possesses the rank that is beyond the human capa- bilities to produce its like. For, if it is admitted and approved by all and sundry—without any disagree- ment or controversy—that something is incompa- rable and has proceeded from God, then anything that is proven to fully share its criteria of incom- parability would also be considered incomparable. For instance, if one object conforms in all aspects to another object which measures ten yards, then it would be established, with absolute certainty and beyond any doubt, that it also measures ten yards. Now, out of the things created by Allah, I shall, for purpose of comparison, select one lovely crea- tion—namely, the rose—and describe the external and internal wonders which make it admittedly of such excellent quality that human capacities fall utterly short of reproducing its like. I shall then prove