The Proof of Preserving

All the programs and life stories of flowers are preserved in minute seeds. That seed becomes a kind of box for the flower. In the next spring, the seed rips and all of the deeds of the flowers, in a sense, are transmitted from the seed.

Is it at all possible that a preserver, which protects all things with the utmost order and balance, – things in the heavens and on the earth, on dry land and in the ocean, dry and wet, large and small, commonplace and exalted- and as it were, sifts their results by way of accounting – should permit the deeds and acts of man, man who has been given the lofty disposition of humanity, the rank of God’s supreme vicegerency, and the duty of bearing the Supreme Trust, not to be recorded, not to be passed through the sieve of accounting, not to be weighed in the balance of justice, not to be punished or rewarded? Definitely not!

We will examine this proof under two headings:

1^st STEP: WHO IS AL-HAFIZ (THE PRESERVER) THAT PRESERVES EVERYTHING?

When we look at this realm carefully, we see that the deeds of everything, small or big, valuable or worthless, are preserved. For instance: