Man is a mirror...

.....''We have created man in the best of forms. Qur'an, 95:4…..And in the earth there are signs for those who are certain * And in your own selves; will you not then not see? Qur'an, 51:20-1.''

This Window is the Window of man, and it is concerned with man's self.

FIRST POINT

Man is a mirror to the Divine Names in three aspects.

The First Aspect:

Like the darkness of the night shows up light, so through his weakness and impotence, his poverty and need, his defects and faults, man makes known the power, strength, riches, and mercy of an All-Powerful One of Glory, and so on...

he acts as a mirror to numerous Divine attributes in this way. Even, through searching for a point of support in his infinite impotence and boundless weakness in the face of his innumerable enemies, his conscience perpetually looks to the Necessarily Existent One.

And since he is compelled in his utter poverty and endless need to seek for a point of assistance in the face of his innumerable aims, his conscience in that respect all the time leans on the Court of an All-Compassionate One of Riches and opens its hands in supplication to Him.

That is to say, in regard to this point of support and point of assistance in the conscience, two small windows are opened onto the Court of Mercy of the All-Powerful and All-Compassionate One, which may all the time be looked through.

The Second Aspect of being mirror-like is this:

through particulars like his partial knowledge, power, senses of sight and hearing, ownership and sovereignty, which are sorts of samples given to him, man acts as a mirror to the knowledge, power, sight, hearing, and sovereignty of dominicality of the Master of the Universe; he understands them and makes them known.

For example, he says: "Just as I make this house and know how to make it, and I see it and own it and administer it, so the mighty palace of the universe has a Maker. Its Maker knows it, sees it, makes it, administers it." And so on..

The Third Aspect of being mirror-like:SECOND POINTTHIRD POINT

Life has a most important nature and significant function.

The impresses in life, which, intermingled, boil up in the form of emotions, point to numerous Names and essential Divine qualities.

They act as mirrors reflecting the essential qualities of the Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One in most brilliant fashion''.........

Thirty-First Window/Words
By Bediuzzaman Said Nursi