How can one declare one's belief in the resurrection?
O Compassionate Lord! Through the teaching of the noble Messenger and the
instruction of the Wise Qur’an, I have understood that all the Divine Books
and the Prophets, primarily including the Qur’an and Your noble Messenger, unanimously
assert and testify that the manifestations of all Your Names of Majesty and
Grace, the exemplary radiations of which are witnessed throughout the universe,
will continue to be manifested in eternity in a more splendid way; that Your
bounties and blessings, the merciful manifestations and specimens of which are
observed in this world, will persist in more brilliant fashion in the Abode
of Eternal Bliss; and that those who are fond of them, those who discern them
in this brief worldly life with pleasure and seek them in love, will accompany
them eternally in the Hereafter.
Moreover, all of the Prophets, led by Your noble Messenger, who relied on
their hundreds of manifest miracles and evident signs of their truthfulness,
and the decisive Divine verses they brought, and are the masters of all illustrious
and illuminated ‘spirits’; and all the saints who are leaders of all illumined
‘hearts’; and all the truthful and purified scholars who are the sources inspiring
all keen, enlightened intellects—they give man the good tidings of the eternal
happiness, and proclaim and testify with firm faith that there is Hellfire for
the misguided and Paradise for the truly guided. They do this on the basis of
the promises and threats You have reiterated in all the heavenly Pages and Sacred
Books; on all Your sacred attributes such as Power, Mercy, Favoring, Wisdom,
Majesty and Grace, all of which require the Resurrection; of the dignity and
might of Your Majesty and the sovereignty of Your Lordship; and of their innumerable
visions and observations, and their belief and convictions in the degree of
certainty coming from true knowledge and direct observation, that convey to
us the traces and effects of the Hereafter.
O All-Powerful and All-Wise One! All-Merciful and All-Compassionate! O All-Munificent,
Truthful in His Promises! O Possessor of Splendor, Grandeur and Majesty, All-Overwhelming
One! You are exalted to the utmost degree above causing so many of Your sincere
friends to appear liars, or rendering false the testimony of so many of Your
Names and attributes; or rebutting and denying reality to that which is decisively
required by the Sovereignty of Your Lordship; from refusing the innumerable
prayers and petitions for the Hereafter of your innumerable servants whom You
love and who seek Your love with belief in You and obedience to You; or from
supporting the denial of the Resurrection made by the people of misguidance
who insult Your Glory and Majesty with their rebellious disbelief and their
belying Your promises, who transgress the Majesty of Your Lordship. We proclaim
to the utmost degree the transcendence and sanctity of Your infinite Justice,
Beauty and Mercy, and their exaltation above such boundless injustice and abomination.
We believe with all our power to believe in the reality and truth of what has
been told with utmost certainty by the hundreds of thousands of truthful Messengers,
all the Prophets, the purified scholars, and the saints, who are the heralds
of Your Sovereignty, concerning the treasuries of Your eternal Mercy, the riches
of Your Bounty to be veiled in the everlasting realm, and the wonderful, miraculous
manifestations of Your Beautiful Names that will fully appear in the Abode of
Happiness. Their indications are true and correct, their prophesying is truthful.
They teach Your servants, by Your command and in accordance with truth, that
the greatest ray to emerge from the Name ‘Truth’—which is the origin, the sun
and the protector of all truths—is the sublime truth of the Resurrection. In
this they believe, and then teach it as the essence of truth. O Lord! For the
sake of the instruction and teaching they give, grant to us and our brethren
perfected belief and fair ending to our life, and grant that we may have some
share of their intercession! Amen.
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