Translations:On Dördüncü Söz/104/en
THE FOURTH: For example, consider the elevated truth expressed by verses like: Indeed, His command when He wills a thing, is, “Be!”, and it is.(*[1]) * And the decision of the Hour is as the twinkling of an eye.(*[2]) * And We are closer to him than his jugular vein.(*[3]) * The angels ascend to Him in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years,(*[4]) which is that the Absolutely Powerful One creates things with such ease and speed, with such facility and lack of trouble, that it appears and is understood that He creates with a mere command. Also, although the All-Powerful Maker is infinitely close to beings, they are infinitely distant from him. Furthermore, despite His infinite might and glory, attaching importance to them, He also sets in order the most insignificant and lowly matters, and does not deny them the beauty of His art.