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DECLARATION
OF BELIEF IN THE
RESURRECTION
IN
THE FORM OF A
SUPPLICATION
O
Compassionate Lord!
Through the teaching of
the noble Messenger and
the instruction of the
Wise Quran, I have
understood that all the
Divine Books and the
Prophets, primarily
including the Quran 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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