First Aim
The following are truthful witnesses to bodily resurrection and true, verifiable proofs of it: the perfect order in the universe, the total wisdom in creation, the absence of futility in the world, the absence of waste in the innate disposition of things, the induction established by all the sciences, the repeated resurrections of a sort in many realms of beings such as the alternations of the days and years, the essence of the human capabilities, the infinite hopes of human beings, the All‑Wise Maker’s mercy, the veracious Messenger’s (UWBP) tongue, and the expositions of the Inimitable Qur’an.
Stopping Place and Indication
1. If there were no everlasting happiness, the [cosmic] order would consist only of a flimsy and fatuous form. All its non‑material aspects, bonds, and relationships would go for nothing. This means that what makes the order order is eternal happiness.
2. Divine wisdom, the exemplification of pre‑eternal providence, proclaims eternal happiness since it pursues uses and purposes in all beings. For if there were no eternal happiness, all the self-evident instances of wisdom and benefits in the universe would compete with each other and cease to be thus.
3. The absence of futility in creation, which is testified to by reason, wisdom, and induction, points to eternal happiness within the resurrection of the dead; indeed, is evidence of it. For absolute non‑existence would make everything futile and pointless.
4. The absence of waste in the nature of things, for instance, in the microcosm that is man, which is testified to by the science of anatomy, proves the absence of waste in man’s mental faculties, and hopes, ideas, and desires. And this announces that he is destined for eternal happiness.
5. If it were not so, those faculties and desires would all wither up and go for nothing. Is it at all possible? Could the shell of a pearl worth the world be cherished and prized, protecting it from a speck of dust even, and then that priceless pearl be smashed and destroyed? No, indeed! It is cherished for its own sake.
6. Indeed, as explained above, the perfect [cosmic] order, the existence of which is established by induction and all the sciences, necessitates everlasting happiness within bodily resurrection, which saves the order from defect and disturbance, and will manifest perfectedness and eternal life.
7. The days, years, human lifespan, and rotations of the world precede each other like the workings of a clock which count the seconds, minutes, hours, and days. They indicate that as the morning follows the night, and spring the winter, so the resurrection will follow on after death and appear from that workshop.
Yes, each individual human being resembles a species, for the light of thought has given such breadth to his hopes that he would not be satisfied even if he swallowed all time. The nature, worth, view, attainments, pleasures and pains of the members of other species are particular, individual, limited, restricted, and instantaneous; but those of human beings are elevated, universal, and everlasting. The various sorts of recurrent diurnal and annual resurrections of many species hint at and point to a general, personal resurrection of man; indeed, they testify to it.
8. The unlimited potentialities included in the essence of man’s spirit, and the unlimited abilities contained in those potentialities, and the endless desires arising from those abilities, and the infinite hopes resulting from those endless desires, and the limitless thoughts and ideas born of those infinite hopes are hands stretched out towards eternal happiness, which is beyond this Manifest World, and are eyes gazing at it, being turned towards it.
9. The mercy of the All‑Wise Maker, the All-Merciful and Compassionate One, will bestow on the human race everlasting happiness, to make His bounties bounty and save them from being an affliction and deliver the universe from the anguish of eternal separation. For if divine mercy were not to bestow everlasting happiness, the chief of all bounties, the bounties would turn into rancour and be transformed into an affliction and one would have to deny the mercy the existence of which is indubitably established by the testimony of the whole universe.
Brother! Consider the various bounties of love, compassion, and affection, then think of everlasting separation and unending parting! Love becomes a grievous calamity. This means that eternal separation cannot confront love. Everlasting happiness will deal everlasting separation such a blow, it will despatch it to eternal non‑existence!
10. The five Ways set out above together with the tongue of our Prophet (UWBP), whose truthfulness and veracity has been proven, are the keys to everlasting happiness within the treasury of bodily resurrection.
11. The Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition, the miraculous inimitability of which has been proved in seven respects for thirteen centuries, is the discloser of bodily resurrection, and is its revealer and initiator.