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The Majestic One, the Master, Administrator, and Creator of all worlds, has many titles and Beautiful Names that issue various decrees and perform different functions. For example, the title or Name requiring the angels to help the Companions fight the unbelievers also requires battle between angels and devils, and struggle between the heavens' good and Earth's evil inhabitants. Certainly the All-Powerful One of Majesty, Who holds the unbelievers' souls within His Power's grasp, does not eradicate them with a command or trumpet blast. As the function of being the Master (Sustainer, Upbringer, Controller) of all creatures, and the requirements of His Names the All-Wise and Administrator, He opens a field of testing and contest.

Consider this: A king has many names and titles for his functions. In the department of justice he is known as Just Ruler, in the armed forces as Supreme Commander, in the office of religious affairs as Caliph or Supreme Head of the Church, and in the civil service as Ruler. His obedient subjects call him Gracious Sovereign, while the rebellious call him Overwhelming Ruler.

Sometimes that exalted king, who enjoys absolute sovereignty, does not order rebels to be executed; rather, as a requirement of his title Just Ruler, they are sent to court. Similarly, he does not reward honest, capable officials by personally admitting or directly phoning them. Instead, under his titles relating to the majesty of sovereignty and expedients of government, he opens a field of competition to show how much the officials deserve the reward, and commands his ministers to invite the people to watch. He organizes a welcoming ceremony and, after a magnificent royal testing, publicly rewards and proclaims the winners' worthiness.

As in the above comparison, the Eternal King has numerous Beautiful Names. Through the manifestations of His Majesty and His Grace, He has many titles and qualities essential to His Divine Being. Whichever title and Name requires the existence of light and darkness, summer and winter, and Paradise and Hell, also require that the law of contest should be universal, like the laws of generation and mutual assistance. From the contest of angelic inspirations and satanic whisperings around the heart to the contest between angels and devils in the vast realm of the heavens, they require that law to be all-embracing.

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