Twentieth window[2]: Consider the following verses:

Glory be to Him in Whose hand is the dominion of all things. (36:83)

There is nothing but its treasuries are with Us and We send it not down but with a known, determined measure. We loose the winds as fertilizing drivers of clouds to make an (electric) current between them and send down from the sky blessed water and provide you with it; you are not the ones who store it. (15:21-22)

A work of art's perfect wisdom, grace, and beauty are apparent in particulars, results, and details. Similarly all universal elements, which seem to be in confusion as well as random and coincidental, assume positions dictated by wisdom and art. Thus light radiates to show and expose God's creatures. In other words, an All-Wise Maker uses light to make His unique arts visible in this world.

Consider the following: Wind, as seen by its other great and wise benefits and functions, runs to carry out its vital duties. Thus, its wave-like movements show that it is employed, sent, and used by an All-Wise Maker. Such movements display the rapid carrying out of the Lords' orders. Springs, streams, and rivers do not emerge from the ground and mountains by chance. Rather, their benefits and uses (the results of Divine Mercy), their storage in mountains according to need, and their being sent according to wisdom show that an All-Wise Lord has subjugated and stored them and causes them to well up in obedience to His commands.

Stones, jewels, and minerals have specific purposes and benefits and are arranged to meet human and animal needs. This shows that an All-Wise Maker has decorated, arranged, organized, and fashioned their decorativeness and beneficial properties. Each flower and fruit, all of which have many smiles, tastes, beauties, embroideries, and scents, is like an invitation and menu on the table of an All-Munificent Maker, a Compassionate Bestower of Bounties. They are given as various invitations and menus to each species through their specific colors, scents, and tastes.

Birds vocalize in an amazing way to relay their feelings and express their intentions to other birds. This clearly indicates that they twitter and chirp because an All-Wise Maker has enabled them to do so. Clouds are also amazing. The sound of falling raindrops, as well as the noise of thunder and lightning, are not meaningless; rather, these strange atmospheric events occur and, as a result, raindrops fall and feed all living creatures on Earth, which are needy and long for them. Thus these events are meaningful and full of purposive wisdom. At an All-Munificent Lord's command, the rain calls out to those longing for it: "Good news! I am coming!"

Look at just the moon among the sky's innumerable bodies. The important instances of wisdom connecting it with Earth, as discussed elsewhere in the Risale-i Nur, demonstrate that it moves at the command of an All-Powerful and Wise One. These universal elements open a vast window. They proclaim and show a Necessarily Existent One's Unity, His Power's perfection, and His Sovereignty's grandeur. So, O heedless one, if you can silence this voice resounding like the crashing of thunder, as well as extinguish this light as brilliant as the sun, forget God. Otherwise, come to your senses and say: All glory be to Him Whom the seven heavens and Earth and all within them glorify (17:44).

[2] The truth in this Twentieth Window occurred to me in Arabic as follows:

The radiance of light is through Your illuminating
and making things known through it;
The succession of ages like waves is through
Your dispatching and employing them.
Glory be to You, how mighty is Your rule!
The gushing out and flowing forth of rivers is through
Your storing them up and subjugating them.
The formation and decoration of stones is through
Your arranging and fashioning them.
Glory be to You, how unique and splendid is Your Wisdom!
The smiling of flowers is through Your adorning and beautifying them.
The emergence of fruits in splendor is through
Your bestowal and favoring.
Glory be to You, how beautiful is Your Art!
The singing of birds is through Your making them
speak and communicate with each other.
The hymning of rain is through Your sending it down, Your bestowal.
Glory be to You, how vast is Your Mercy!
The motion of moons is through Your determining,
arranging, directing, and illuminating.
Glory be to You, how brilliant Your proofs, how clear Your evidences!

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