the extent of that deficiency. God does not accept it incomplete. Some prayers are therefore joined to others. If he has a hundred prayers with deficiencies, some are completed from others and brought before the Real complete. The hundred prayers may thus become eighty, fifty, ten, more, or fewer. Such is the prayer of the two weighty kinds.
Continuation on the Real’s Describing Himself with Blessing and Not Describing Himself with Glorification
God Most High said, “Do you not see that God is glorified by whoever is in the heavens and the earth, and the birds with wings outspread? Each” [al-Nur 24:41], meaning each of these, “has known His blessing” [al-Nur 24:41]. The pronoun in “His blessing” refers to God.[13] It means God’s blessing upon it through its very existence and His mercy to it in that. In His words “and its glorification,” the pronoun in “its glorification” refers to “each,” meaning that by which it glorifies its Lord, which is its prayer to Him. The Real thus described Himself with blessing without describing Himself with glorification. Through this verse He included the higher and lower worlds and what is between them.
Continuation on God’s Jealousy That One Creature Should Claim Favor over Another, so That Favor Belongs to God
Out of God’s jealousy that one creature should claim favor over another, so that favor belongs to God, He created no creature without giving another creature some claim upon it in one respect or another. If a creature wishes to boast over another because of what it has done for it, what it has received
Notes
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(This is the author’s assignment of the pronoun’s referent in his inward application. He then distinguishes the pronoun in “His blessing” from the pronoun in “its glorification.”)
Translator’s note TN2278-1: The “two weighty kinds” are humans and jinn. The reading of Quran 24:41 deliberately gives the two pronouns different referents, so that creatures know God’s blessing upon them and their own glorification of Him.
