every garden the bride of significances is seen seated in the chambers of words, with full adornment and grace. Most of the Koran verses indicate and show forth this spiritual fact. The saying, "Neither is there anything which doth not celebrate His praise" (K. S. 17), is eloquent testimony thereto; and " everything have we computed and written down" (K. S. 78) is a faithful witness thereof. If by "Meeting of God " is meant the meeting of these splendors, then all the people have attained to the meeting of the Eternal Countenance of that Peerless King. Why, then, is it assigned to the Day of Resurrection?
But if they say the purpose is the " Special Splendor," the state interpreted by some of the Sufis as the "Most Holy Outpouring;" if it is in the Essence Itself, it hath been eternally in the Divine Knowledge. Supposing this hypothesis to be admitted; in this sense "Meeting" cannot become true of any one, because this state is realized in the Innermost of the Essence, unto which none can ever attain! "The way is barred, and seeking after it is forbidden." The minds of the Near Ones cannot soar to this station, how much less can the intellects of the limited and veiled ones! If they say it is the "Secondary Splendor," which is interpreted as the "Holy Outpouring," this is unquestionably in the world of creation, that is, in the world of primal manifestation and original emanation. This station is assigned only to His Prophets and Holy
