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KNOW that when a man, who has life in his heart, turns his gaze to the universe, he will see immense events and matters that he is incapable of comprehending and understanding and will be astonished. To heal this pain of astonishment, like a person who suffers great thirst longing for delicious pleasant water, he also is filled with the desire to say سُبْحَانَ اللّٰهِ .

That same man; when he sees the subtlety of the ni’mahs and delicious foods, by being compelled to express the pleasures he receives from the delicious ni’mahs and to seek to increase the pleasure through seeing the act of giving the ni’mahs within the ni’mahs and Al-Mun’im within the act of giving the ni’mahs under the title of hamd, he can breathe with the phrase اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ like a man who has discovered a buried treasure.

That same man; when he sees strange and bizarre creatures that he cannot weigh up with the scales of his mind or judge with his narrow mind but his feelings, which search for the haqiqah, occupy with those strange and bizarre creatures, he can relief only by saying: اللّٰهُ اَكْبَرُ . That is, their Khâliq is greater than them. Their creation and administration are not heavy for Him.

Just as if a man sees that the moon turns around him, the pain of astonishment and confusion will surely cause him to faint away… or if he sees that a mountain rises out of the ground during an earthquake, he will start to say اللّٰهُ اَكْبَرُ due to his fear. He casts the burden of fear and astonishment on his back onto the ship of Al-Qadîr, Al-Qawî, Al-Matîn Jalla Jalâluhu.