In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
And from Him do we seek help
Part Three of a Single Lesson of the Third School of Joseph
Introduction
Part Two was written at the implied command of Sura al‑Fatiha in the five daily prayers, and through the effulgence of I testify that there is no god but Allah. Now I have been obliged – for three reasons I am not at present permitted to disclose – to write this Third Part, prompted by the tongue of I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and through the effulgence of the sublime verses at the end of Sura al‑Fath: It is He Who sent His Prophet with guidance and the Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over all religion, and enough is Allah for a Witness. ❋ Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are strong against unbelievers, [but] compassionate among each other…, which contain five miraculous predictions. Referring the details, explanations, and documented proofs to The Miracles of Muhammad (UWBP) in Zülfikâr, which is about the messengership of Muhammad (UWBP), and to the Arabic al‑Hizb al-Nuri in The Supreme Sign, here shall be written very briefly and concisely in the second and third of three Indications, a summary of the Hizb al‑Nuri and a sort of translation of the part of the testimony of faith Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah which I constantly use in my Arabic reflective thought together with the affirmation of divine unity, repeating them in the tesbihat following the prayers.
First Indication
Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace), who responded with universal worship and teaching to the manifestation of the dominicality of the universe’s Owner, and His eternal divinity, and His infinite bounties, is as necessary for the universe as is the sun. For he is the supreme master of humankind and its greatest prophet, the Glory of the World, and the one addressed by If not for you, if not for you, I would not have created the spheres. The Muhammadan Reality was the reason for the world’s creation, and is its result and most perfect fruit. So too, truths connected with the universe such as its true perfections and its being the enduring mirrors of an eternal Beauteous One of Glory, and the manifestation of His names, and the works – charged with duties – of His wise acts, and His most meaningful missives, and its bearing an everlasting world, and its producing the result of the hereafter and an abode of bliss for which all conscious creatures yearn, – these are all realized through the Muhammadan (UWBP) Reality and his messengership. Since this is so, the universe testifies most powerfully and decisively to his messengership. Moreover, the messengership of Muhammad (UWBP) and the Muhammadan Reality give certain good news of eternal life, which, in order to be saved from non‑existence, nothingness, eternal extinction, and absolute annihilation, foremost the world of Islam, and all mankind and all conscious creatures, constantly and earnestly seek, with all the powers of their comprehensive natures, with the tongues of all their abilities, and with all their supplications, worship, and entreaties. They thus testify to Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership and the Muhammadan Reality, endorsing that he is the pride of humankind and the most noble of creatures. Moreover, in accordance with the rule the cause is like the doer, the equivalent of all the good works performed every day by three hundred and fifty million believers being recorded in Muhammad’s (Upon whom be blessings and peace) book of good works, and the single person of Muhammad (UWBP) attaining to a station manifesting the universal worship and effulgence of hundreds of millions of righteous worshippers, and perhaps thousands of millions, testifies in truly powerful fashion to his messengership, affirming it.
Second Indication
The following indicates more than twenty testimonies, which I always ponder over reflectively in the course of my invocations: Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, ever faithful to his promise, through the testimony of his sudden appearance with a perfect religion, Islam, and Shari‘a despite being unlettered, with the firmest belief, faith, and worship, the most elevated cause, supplications, and prayers, the most general message, utter steadfastness, and wondrous fruitfulness, all without equal.
A translation of the above and a brief exposition of its meaning are
The Following Testimonies to the Messengership of Muhammad (Uwbp).
The First
Is a proof of prophethood proceeding from eleven of his attributes and states.
Yes, his appearing – despite being unlettered – suddenly and without experience with a religion which has left in amazement the learned men and philosophers of fourteen centuries and has won first place among the revealed religions is an attribute without equal.
Also unequalled is the fact that Islam, which emerged from his words, actions, and conduct, has at all times educated and trained the spirits, souls, and minds of three hundred and fifty million people, taking them to spiritual advancement.
Moreover, he appeared with such a Shari‘a that for fourteen centuries it has ruled with its just laws one fifth of humankind, leading it to material and spiritual progress.
So too that Being (UWBP) appeared with such a faith and creed, and such strength of belief that all the people of reality have unanimously affirmed that, since they receive perpetual effulgence from it, his belief was at the highest and strongest degree. The opposition of his innumerable opponents at that time not causing him the slightest anxiety, doubt, or scruple, shows too that the strength of his belief was without equal or like.
He also displayed such worship of Allah and servitude to Him that bringing together the beginning and end of worship, imitating no one, he saw and conformed to the subtlest mysteries of worship, and fulfilled them even in times of greatest disturbance. This was an incomparable attribute,
as was his offering such prayers, supplications and entreaties to his Creator that up to the present his degree has not been reached, even with the meeting of many minds. For example, in the supplication Jaushan al‑Kabir, taking as intercessor a thousand and one divine names, he so describes and acquaints his Creator that it has no like.
Thus, no one has attained to his knowledge of Allah.
He called people to religion with such steadfastness and announced his prophethood with such boldness that although his people, his uncle, the great powers of the world, and the followers of the former religions were all opposed and hostile to him, he did not fear or hold back even a jot, but challenged them all and successfully accomplished his task. This too was an unparalleled attribute.
Thus, these eight wondrous, matchless attributes form a truly powerful testimony to his veracity and prophethood.
They show too that there is complete certainty concerning his utter seriousness, trustworthiness, veracity, and truthfulness.
Every day in the tashahhud with millions of tongues the world of Islam declares: Peace be upon you, O Prophet! And may Allah’s mercy and blessings be upon you. It submits to the function with which he was charged, and affirming the good news of the eternal happiness which he brought, it gratefully says: Peace be upon you, O Prophet! in the face of the sure way leading to eternal life which humankind seeks and yearns for with an innate, profound longing, thus meeting with him in spirit and congratulating him in the name of three hundred million, indeed, thousands of millions.
Which Comprises Twenty Universal Testimonies, as Well as Many Others:
The Second Testimony
Through the testimony to his veracity of all truths of the pillars of belief.
That is, the truths, realities, and veracity of the six pillars of belief testify decisively to Muhammad’s (Upon whom be blessings and peace) messengership and veracity.
For the collective personality of his life as Messenger and the basis of all he claimed and the essence of his prophethood were those six pillars. In which case, all the evidences verifying the pillars of belief proved the truth of Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership, and his veracity.
The evidences for the hereafter of the other pillars of faith are set forth in The Fruits of Belief (Meyve Risalesi) and the Addenda of the Tenth Word; and all the pillars together with their proofs form a proof of his messengership.
The Third Universal Testimony
Which Comprises Thousands of Testimonies: Through the testimony of his self (Upon whom be blessings and peace), through his thousands of miracles, perfections, and fine morality.
That is: he was a proof of himself as brilliant as the sun, through the powerful testimony to his messengership and veracity of his thousands of miracles, attainments and perfections, and his elevated character and fine morality.
Yes, as is proved in the wondrous treatise of The Miracles of Muhammad (UWBP) through more than three hundred sound narrations, in accordance with the explicit verses And the moon split, and And when you threw, it was not you who threw; it was rather Allah that threw, the moon splitting in two at the sign of a single finger of his hand; and water flowing forth in five springs from the five fingers of the same hand, and an entire thirsty army drinking from these and testifying to it; and his casting a handful of dust with the same hand at an attacking enemy army, and their turning tail and fleeing when the dust entered the eyes of all of them; and small pebbles uttering glorifications in the same hand, as though they were human, saying: Glory be to Allah! – hundreds of incidents such as these, which are related in sound narrations; and some about which there are unanimous reports described in the histories, and miracles, which according to exacting scholars numbered around a thousand, appearing at his hand; and according to friend and foe alike his fine attributes and good character being of the very highest degree; and the unanimous agreement – at the degree of absolute certainty – of all the people of reality, who have attained to spiritual perfection by following him and reached the vision of certainty in the realities, that Muhammad’s (UWBP) perfections and attainments were of the very highest level; and the spiritual achievements of the world of Islam, which proceeds from his religion; as well as the truths of mighty Islam – all these furnish evidence for his wondrous perfections. This surely means that this Being (UWBP) testified in most brilliant and universal fashion to his own messengership.
Which Comprises Numerous Powerful Testimonies:
The Fourth Testimony
Through the testimony of the Qur’an, with all its truths and proofs.
That is, the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition testifies to his messengership and veracity with its innumerable truths and proofs.
Yes, with all its veracious truths, the Qur’an of Mighty Stature, which as is proved Zülfikâr is miraculous in forty respects, has illumined fourteen centuries and governed through its unchanging laws one fifth of mankind; and from that time to this has challenged all those who have opposed it; and not even one of the suras of which anyone has dared to produce the like of; and as is proved in The Supreme Sign, whose six aspects are luminous and cannot be penetrated by doubts; and whose veracity is endorsed by six supreme stations; which is based on six unshakeable truths; and is eagerly and respectfully recited every moment by hundreds and millions of tongues, and is inscribed with its sacredness on the hearts of hafizes; and from whose testimony proceeds all the testimony and belief of the world of Islam; and from whose source flow forth all the sciences of belief and of Islam; and just as it affirms all the previous revealed scriptures, so is it affirmed by them; – with all its truths and all its proofs of its veracity, the Qur’an of Mighty Stature testifies to the truthfulness and messengership of Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace).
The Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Universal Testimonies:
Through the testimony of Jaushan al‑Kabir, and the sacredness of its allusions; and the Risale-i Nur, and the power of its proofs; and the past, and the unanimity of its signs of a forthcoming prophet; and the future, and the confirmation of thousands of its events.
That is to say, Jaushan al‑Kabir, which looks both explicitly and allusively to a thousand and one divine names; is a wondrous supplication that in one respect proceeds from the Qur’an; is superior to all the other invocations recited by those who advance in knowledge of Allah; which was brought as revelation by Gabriel during a military expedition, who said: “Cast away your armour and in its place read this Jaushan!” – the truths it contains and its perfectly accurate descriptions of the Sustainer testify to Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership and veracity. So too, by proving rationally and logically as a single proof with its one hundred and thirty parts all the truths of the messengership of Muhammad (UWBP), and teaching matters which in the view of philosophy are remote from reason in the most reasonable and easy fashion as though they were before one’s very eyes, the Risale‑i Nur – which in one respect received effulgence from the Jaushan/ and was born of it – testifies in universal fashion to Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership and veracity.
Also, the past was a universal witness to his messengership, for numerous incidents which occurred before the commencement of his prophethood called irhasat, and wonders which were counted as miracles of the coming prophet and are related unanimously in the histories and books of biography, testify in authentic fashion to his messengership. These are of many different sorts. A part of them are described in the coming Testimonies below, and others are related in the form of sound narrations in Zülfikâr and in books of history.
For example, close to the time of the Prophet’s (UWBP) birth stones being rained down from the claws of the ababil birds on the heads of Abraha’s soldiers who had come to destroy the Ka‘ba; and on the night of his birth the idols in the Ka‘ba all toppling over; and the palace of Chrosroes the Persian being destroyed; and the fire‑worshipping Zoroastrians’ fire being extinguished that night, which had been burning continuously for a thousand years; and on the certain reports of Bahira the Monk and Halima al-Sa‘diya, clouds throwing shadows around his head; numerous events like these gave forewarning of his prophethood before its commencement.
Also, there were very many events of differing kinds that he predicted would occur in the future, that is, after his death. Some were prophecies about his Family and Companions, and the conquests of Islam, which are given in The Miracles of Muhammad (UWBP) in Zülfikâr, together with their authentic sources. Others were eighty accurate predictions, including ‘Uthman (May Allah be pleased with him) being martyred while reading the Qur’an, Husayn (May Allah be pleased with him) being martyred at Karbala, the conquests of Syria and Iran and Istanbul, and emergence of the ‘Abbasid dynasty, and Jenghiz and Hulagu defeating and destroying it, have all been described in detail on the basis of sound narrations and the books of history and the Prophet’s biography. This means that numerous predictions of future events, and the future, which proved Muhammad’s (UWBP) veracity, testify also in powerful and universal fashion to Muhammad’s messengership and its veracity.
The Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Testimonies:
Through the testimony of Muhammad’s Family to his veracity through the power of their certain belief at the degree of absolute certainty; and of his Companions, through their perfect belief at the degree of the vision of certainty; and of the purified scholars through the power of their investigations at the degree of knowledge of certainty; and of the spiritual poles, through the conformity of their illuminations and unfoldings with his messengership and its certainty.
That Is, of the Universal Testimonies to Muhammad’s (Uwbp) Truthfulness and Veracity,
The Ninth:
With their unanimous and absolutely certain belief, and their unfoldings and illuminations, and the extraordinary guidance they gave the Umma and their wonder‑working, the great saints of Prophet’s (UWBP) Family, who in benedictions for the Prophet (UWBP) are held equal to the descendants of Abraham (Upon whom be peace), who manifested the meaning of The scholars of my community are the equivalent of the prophets of the Children of Israel, and ‘Ali, Hasan, Husayn, and the twelve Imams of the Prophet’s Family, and the spiritual poles and leaders like Gawth al‑A‘zam, Ahmad al-Rufa’i, Ahmad al-Badawi, Ibrahim al-Dassuqi, and Abu’l-Hasan al-Shazali all ratified through their belief and testimonies the messengership, veracity, and truthfulness of Muhammad (UWBP).
The Tenth:
The Companions of the Prophet, regarded as the most elevated and esteemed group after the prophets, through the light of Muhammad (UWBP) came in a short time to govern with justice from east to west despite being illiterate nomads, and becoming advanced, educated, civilized masters, teachers, diplomats and just judges, they defeated world powers and made that century into an age of happiness. After scrutinizing every aspect of his conduct, because of the power of the many miracles they witnessed with their own eyes, they abandoned their former enmities and the ways of their forefathers, and many of them such as Khalid ibn al‑Walid and Ikrima Ibn Abu Jahl gave up the tribalism of their fathers. Their embracing Islam in truly devoted and self-sacrificing manner, and believing in Muhammad’s (UWBP) veracity and messengership at the degree of vision of certainty forms an unshakeable universal testimony.
The Eleventh:
The belief in Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership and veracity in reasoned, logical manner at the degree of knowledge of certainty of the mujtahids, imams, and authoritative scholars, who are known as the purified ones and veracious ones, and of the thousands of investigative scholars such as the brilliant philosophers Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd, based on thousands of categorical arguments and definitive proofs, each following his own way, forms a testimony so universal that only one with the intelligence of all of them could oppose them.
One of those innumerable witnesses at the present time is the Risale‑i Nur, before which the deniers have found themselves helpless, so deceiving the police and judiciary, have tried to silence it by means of the courts.
The Twelfth:
In their spiritual progress, the profoundest people of reality and researchers into the realities known as spiritual poles, each of whom drew into the circle of his instruction a significant part of the Umma in the World of Islam, and with his wondrous guidance and wonder‑working caused those people to advance spiritually, and whose progress was based on illumination and disclosing the realities in place of proofs – they saw experientially through their illuminations Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership and truthfulness and that his veracity was of the very highest degree. Their unanimous and mutually conforming testimony to his prophethood forms such a signature that no one who does not attain to a degree of perfections as elevated as all of them can erase it.
The Thirteenth Testimony
Which consists of four universal, most extensive and definite proofs:
Through the testimony of the past and the agreement in the tidings of the soothsayers, the voices from the Unseen, and the gnostics in all the periods of the past, and the testimony of the tidings of the prophets and divine messengers, Upon whom be peace, and the good news of the messengership of Muhammad, Upon whom be blessings and peace, in the previous holy scriptures.
A brief explanation of the above passage will be given here, for there are precise details together with the chains of authorities in the end section of The Miracles of Muhammad (UWBP), in Zülfikâr.
It is recorded with sound narrations and in part with unanimous reports in the histories and books of Hadith and the Prophet’s biography that among the most prominent and famous of mankind in past times, foremost the prophets and the gnostics, soothsayers, and voices from the Unseen foretold Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership and coming unanimously, explicitly and repeatedly in the form of irhasat. Since the most powerful and certain of those thousands of predictions are described in detail in The Miracles of Muhammad (UWBP), we refer you to that and here only say by way of a brief indication:
out of hundreds in the revealed scriptures of the Torah, Gospels, and Psalms, brought by the prophets, twenty verses about the prophethood of Muhammad (UWBP) which are close to being explicit are written in the Nineteenth Letter (The Miracles of Muhammad (UWBP)). While Husayn al‑Jisri found a hundred verses about Muhammad’s prophethood in their texts, despite the numerous corruptions made by Jews and Christians, and wrote them in his book.
According to a sound narration concerning which were unanimous reports, the soothsayers, and foremost Shiqq and Satih, who by means of jinns and spirit beings gave information about the Unseen and are now called mediums, foretold explicitly the coming of Allah’s Messenger (UWBP) and that he would wipe out the Persian Empire. They stated repeatedly in a way that could not be doubted that a prophet was shortly to appear in the Hijaz.
Similarly, Ka‘b ibn Lu’ayy, one of the Prophet’s forefathers and a gnostic, and many other gnostics and the saints of that time such as the rulers of Yemen and Abyssinia, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan and Tubba, foretold clearly Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership, and proclaimed it in their poetry. The most important and certain of these are included in the Nineteenth Letter. One of those kings even said: “I would choose to be Muhammad’s (UWBP) servant in preference to ruling this kingdom.” Another said: “If I had lived to see him, I would have been his cousin.” That is, I would have been a devoted servant and minister of his like ‘Ali (May Allah be pleased with him). The histories and books of biography have published all these prophecies, showing that the gnostics affirmed Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership and veracity with a powerful, universal testimony.
Similarly, spirit beings called hātif, which are heard but not seen, made predictions about Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership, the same as the gnostics and soothsayers, foretelling his prophethood quite explicitly. Also, by foretelling his prophethood, many other things affirmed his messengership and veracity, such as animals sacrificed to idols, idols, and gravestones, testifying through the tongue of history.
The Fourteenth Testimony:
The following Arabic piece alludes to the universe’s powerful testimony:
Through the testimony of the universe to the comprehensive messengership of Muhammad (UWBP) through its aims and the divine purposes in it, which would otherwise come to nothing, for through the sending of man and particularly of Muhammad its value and duties were established, and its beauties and perfections became clear, and the wisdom in its truths were realized. For his messengership revealed them and was the means of their realization. Had it not been for his messengership, this perfect universe, this eternal and meaningful mighty book, would have gone for nothing, its meanings would have vanished and its perfections declined utterly, which is impossible in numerous respects.
In The Supreme Sign, the above is interpreted as follows: Just as the universe points to its Maker, Writer, and Inscriber, Who creates, administers, and organizes it, and Who, decorating, determining, and planning it, has disposal over it as though it were a palace, a book, an exhibition, or place of display; so it requires and demands an elevated herald, a truthful discoverer, an exacting master, a faithful teacher, who will know the divine purposes in its creation, and make them known, and will teach the instances of dominical wisdom in its changes, and announce the results of its dutiful motions, and proclaim its value and the perfections of the beings within it. Since this is so and it points to his existence, surely testifying in powerful and universal fashion to the veracity of Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace), who performed these duties better than anyone, and to his being the highest and most loyal official of its Creator, it declares: I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
Yes, through the light Muhammad (UWBP) brought the universe’s nature, value, and perfections, and the duties, results, and value of the beings within it and the fact that they are officials, all became known and were realized. From top to bottom it became divine missives full of meaning, an embodied dominical Qur’an, and a magnificent exhibition of divine works. If not for his light, it becomes a mere desolate ruin, confused, a terrible place of mourning, toppling over into the darknesses of non‑existence, nothingness, death, and obliteration. It is in consequence of this truth that the universe’s perfections, purposeful transformations, and eternal meanings declare in powerful fashion: We testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah!
The Fifteenth Testimony:
The following is an Arabic piece which comprises numerous sacred testimonies. It indicates the sacred testimony to Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership of the acts of the dominicality of the Necessarily Existent One and of the deeds of His mercifulness, Who has disposal over the universe, and through Whose will, command, and power occur all change and transformation, motion and rest, from minute particles to the planets, and all the disposals of life and death.
Through the testimony of the universe’s Owner, its Creator and Disposer, to the messengership of Muhammad (UWBP), through the deeds of His mercifulness and acts of His dominicality; such as the mercy of revealing to him the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition; and displaying many varieties of miracles at his hand; and assisting him and protecting him in all circumstances; and through perpetuating his religion together with all its truths; and by raising him to a position of high respect and honour and bestowal over all creatures, as is to be seen and observed; and His act of dominicality of making Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership a spiritual sun in the universe, and making his religion the index of the perfections of His servants; and making his reality a comprehensive mirror to the manifestations of His divinity; and His entrusting him with duties necessary for the existence of creatures in the universe such as mercy, wisdom, and justice, as necessary as food and water, and air and light.
Referring details of this most extensive, certain, and sacred testimony to the Risale‑i Nur, here we shall merely take a look at a brief and concise meaning of it.
Since – in accordance with the justice and wisdom, mercy, favour, and protection which we see in the regular, orderly disposals in the universe – it is the practice of dominicality to always protect the good and deal blows at the bad and liars, as demanded by the acts of His mercifulness, this world’s Disposer and Administrator revealed the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition to Muhammad (UWBP); and He bestowed on him nearly a thousand miracles of very many sorts; and compassionately preserved him in all circumstances and dangerous situations, even by means of a pigeon and a spider; and gave him complete success in all his duties; and perpetuated his religion together with all its truths; and caused his religion of Islam to spread over all the earth and to all humankind; and by raising him to a position of honour above all creatures and a permanent rank of acceptance superior to all the pre‑eminent of humankind and, as is agreed by friend and foe alike, bestowed on him the highest character and qualities, and made one fifth of mankind his community – all of which testify most decisively to his faithfulness and messengership; so we see from the point of view of the acts of dominicality that this world’s Disposer and Administrator made Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership a sun in the universe, and as is proved in the Risale‑i Nur, caused it to dispel all kinds of darknesses and show its luminous truths, and make happy all conscious beings, indeed the universe, with the good news of eternal life; and He made his religion an index of perfections for all the acceptable people of worship and a sound programme for their acts of worship; and as is indicated by the Qur’an and Jaushan, He made Muhammad’s (UWBP) Reality, which is his collective personality, a comprehensive mirror to the manifestations of His divinity; and as is indicated by the above‑mentioned truths, and by the fact that every day for fourteen centuries he has gained the equivalent of all the good works of all his community, and by his works and traces in human social and spiritual life, He made him the highest leader, master, and authority of humankind; and sent him to the assistance of humankind with sacred, sublime duties, and made men as needy for his religion, his Shari‘a, and the truths of Islam as they are for mercy, wisdom, justice, food, air, water, and light; thus offering sacred testimony to Muhammad’s (UWBP) messengership with twelve universal, decisive proofs – since this is so, is it at all possible that the messengership of Muhammad (UWBP), which thus manifests these universal, extensive testimonies of the universe’s Owner, Who is not indifferent to the ordering of the wing of a fly even or a flower, should not be a Sun of the universe?
Each of these fifteen Testimonies comprise numerous testimonies, and through the tongue of miracles the Second even comprises thousands, thus proving the profession “I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah” most powerfully and definitely and proclaiming its reality, value, and importance, so that every day five times in the tashahhud the world of Islam announces it to the universe with millions of tongues. So too, thousands of millions of believers unhesitatingly accept and affirm that the Muhammadan (UWBP) Reality, which is the basis of that profession, is the original seed of the universe, a reason for its creation, and its most perfect fruit.
And the universe’s Owner (May His Glory be exalted) made that collective personality of Muhammad (UWBP) the loudest herald of the sovereignty of His dominicality; the accurate discloser of the talisman of the universe and riddle of creation; a shining exemplar of His favour and mercy; an eloquent tongue of His compassion and love; the most powerful bringer of the good tidings of everlasting life and happiness in the eternal realm; and of His messengers, His final and greatest Prophet.
It may be seen from this what a great error, foolishness, and crime those people commit who do not accept a truth such as this, or attach no importance to it, and what a terrible loss they suffer.
Thus, as indicated in Part Two, Sura al‑Fatiha in the ritual prayers demonstrates with decisive proofs the affirmation of divine unity in the profession I testify that there is no god but Allah, which is said in the tashahhud, setting innumerable signatures to it; so too this Third Part sets forth powerful testimonies to the reality of messengership claimed in And I testify that Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger, again stated in the tashahhud, stamping it with innumerable confirmatory signatures.
O Most Merciful of the Merciful! In veneration of Your Most Noble Messenger (UWBP) allow us his intercession, give us success in following his Sunna, and make us neighbours to his Family and Companions in the Realm of Bliss! Amen. Amen. Amen.
Allah! Grant him blessings and peace, and to his Family and Companions, to the number of the letters of the Qur’an, both those recited and those written. Amen.
Glory be unto You! We have no knowledge save that which You have taught us; indeed, You are All‑Knowing, All-Wise.