Second indication: Our parable mentioned a most noble commander. We pointed out that those who see his decorations and medals must know that he is the king’s favored servant who acts according to the king’s commands. This commander is God’s Most Noble Messenger. The All-Holy, the Creator of so beautiful a universe, must send a noble Messenger, just as the sun must emit light. The sun cannot exist without emitting light, and Divinity cannot be without revealing itself by sending Prophets.

Could an absolute, perfect beauty not will to present itself through one who would demonstrate and display it? Could that perfectly beautiful artistry not will to make itself known through one who will draw our attention to it? Could the universal dominion of an all-embracing Lordship not will to make known its being One and the Eternally-Besought-of-All to all levels of multiplicity and particularity through a Messenger ennobled by his double authority? The universality of his worship makes him the Realm of Multiplicity’s envoy to the Divine Court, and his nearness to God and his being entrusted with His Message make him the Divine Court’s envoy to that realm.

Could the One of infinite essential Beauty not will to behold, and have others behold in numerous mirrors, His Beauty’s aspects and His Grace’s dimensions? God’s Messenger is His beloved. Through his worship, he holds up a mirror to Him; the bearer of God’s Message, he makes God Almighty beloved by us and demonstrates to us the beauty of His Names.

Could the Owner of treasuries filled with extraordinary miracles and priceless goods not will to show them to an appreciative humanity via the expert skills of a master jeweler and his descriptive eloquence, thereby revealing His hidden perfections? Could the One Who shows His Names’ perfection in a universe so adorned that it resembles a palace decorated with every variety of subtle, miraculous artistry not appoint a teacher and guide so that humanity might understand the wonders of His creation?

Could the Lord Who rules and sustains the universe not resolve, by means of His Messenger, our bewilderment over why there is constant change in the universe, and answer the questions on everyone’s mind: What is our origin? Where are we headed? What is our purpose [here]? Could the Majestic Maker, Who makes Himself known to conscious beings through His fair creation and loved through His precious gifts, not send a Messenger to convey to them what His Will demands from them in exchange? Could God create us with a disposition to suffer from multiplicity (this world and its charms) alongside an ability to engage in universal worship, without simultaneously wanting us to turn away from multiplicity and toward Unity by means of a teacher and guide?

Prophethood has many other functions, each of which is a decisive argument that Divinity necessarily implies Messengership. Has there ever been a person more worthy and qualified to fulfill these functions, more fitted to the rank of Messenger, more suited to the task of conveying God’s Message, than Prophet Muhammad? No. He is the master of Messengers, the foremost of Prophets, the leader of purified scholars, the nearest to God of those who have drawn near to Him, the most perfect of creatures, and the master of those who guide to righteousness.

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