In another place, " But they who considered that they should meet God said, How often hath a small army discomfited a great army! " In another place, " Let him, therefore, who hopeth to meet his Lord, work a righteous work" (K. S. 18). Again, " He ordereth all things; He showeth (His) Signs distinctly, that ye may be assured ye must meet your Lord" (K. S. 13).
They have denied all these verses indicating the " Meeting," which is the strongest decree found in the Heavenly Books, and have deprived themselves of this lofty and exalted position and this excellent and glorious rank. Some say that by this is meant the meeting of the splendor of God in the Day of Resurrection. If they assert that the " Universal Splendor " is intended, this exists in all things, for we have formerly demonstrated that all things show forth the splendor of that Ideal King, and that the traces of the effulgence of the sun of the Manifestor exist and are visible in the mirrors of beings. Nay, if the spiritual and Divine eye of man be opened, he will see that nothing exists without the appearance of the splendor of that Ideal King. For thou dost perceive that all contingent and created things express the manifestation and emanation of that Ideal Light, and dost behold the doors of the Divine Rizwan opened in all things for seekers to enter the cities of Intelligence and Wisdom, and attained ones to pass into the gardens of Knowledge and Power. In
