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The Prophet Muhammad's Ascension - Ascension
Written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi   
Wednesday, 22 February 2006

What is the Ascension's wisdom?

Answer: The wisdom here is so elevated that human minds cannot reach it, so profound that human minds cannot comprehend it, and so subtle and fine that the intellect cannot grasp it. However, even if we cannot know its wisdom or the exact Divine purposes for it, some indications allow us to show the existence of several purposes. They are as follows.

To show the light of His Unity presented as the manifestation of all His Names throughout the universe, as well as His Oneness presented as the concentrated manifestation of some or all of His Names on a certain thing, the Creator of this universe distinguished an eminent individual with an Ascension in the form of a link between the Realm of Multiplicity and Corporeality's furthest limit and the Dominion of Pure Unity and spirituality's starting point. Addressing him on behalf of all creatures, He explained all Divine purposes to him in the name of conscious beings, and made them known through him. He also willed to observe through his sight His art's beauty and His Lordship's perfection in the mirrors of His creatures and to cause them to be observed by others.

Furthermore, His works testify that the Maker of the world has infinite beauty and perfection, both of which are loved because of themselves. Thus the One with infinite beauty and perfection has a boundless love for His Beauty and Perfection, a love that manifests itself in the works of His art, which He loves because He sees His Beauty and Perfection in them. The most lovable and elevated of His works of art are animate beings. The most lovable and elevated animate beings are conscious beings. By virtue of their comprehensiveness, the most lovable conscious beings are found among humanity. The most loveable person is the one who has developed his or her potentiality most fully and manifested the samples of the perfections observed in all creatures.

To see at one point and in one mirror all manifestations of His Love pervading all creatures, and to display all varieties of His Beauty focused on one individual, the Maker of beings chose one person, an illustrious, enlightened fruit of the Tree of Creation, one whose heart is like a seed containing that tree's essential elements. To demonstrate how He loves that individual in the name of the universe, He drew him to His Presence through an Ascension, which is like a thread linking the seed (the origin) with the fruit (the end), and honored him with the vision of His Essential Beauty. So that others could imitate his holiness and excellence, He favored him with His Word and entrusted Him with His Decree.

To understand this exalted wisdom, consider the comparisons below.

First comparison:

 
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