The individuals among men are, during the business of life, formed dependent on their mutual wants. To this sect it is an indispensable rule to associate all together, in order that no oppression may take place towards each other in their communities, and that the order of the world may remain upheld. It is indispensable that this great rule be derived from God, the Lord of glory, in order that all men may adopt it. On that account, the government of the supreme Judge has found necessary that, by power of his perfection, a canon, having been revealed among the different classes of mankind, should be agreed upon for the regulation of the creatures, in consequence of which the purpose of the conditions in the affairs of the world might be settled. Further, by the assistance of reason and instruction, there is in this age no other moon or sun in the sphere of perfection but ALI MURTAZA, “the chosen.” Truly, the _illiterate prophet_[672] (Muhammed) esteemed this blessed personage equal to several learned apostles, and saw praiseworthy qualities of a prophet united in that virtuous existence. Hence it follows, that men possessed of sight behold him sometimes come down from heaven in the shape of the father of mankind (_Adam_), and reckon his time to be that of one who inhabited the floating ship of Noah, and place him as far back as that age when a martyr, in the garment of Ibrahim, he was playing with the fire _into which Nimrod had thrown him_; another time they find him in the dress of the speaker with God, _Moses_, and the words of that Lord: “He who knows himself, certainly knows God,” confirm that the pure spirit of that embodied soul, and wisdom, represented in a person, is the Creator of the world, worthy of praise. And the sentence: “God created man according to his image,” relates to the same, as Adam, the holy father of mankind, the Just, is nobody else but _Alí Murtazi_. And the saying: “I saw the Lord in the shape of a man,” refers to that eternal being, merging into a body, as he has manifested himself in the prophet’s visible form under the shape a powerful man; and the honor of the prophet’s presenting his shoulder by the assistance of the divine grace to the foot of that leader, relates but to this, that reverence is due to him, as that truth-speaking and truth-singing poet sung: “The prophet, in breaking down the idols, had no other desire But that his shoulder might be placed beneath the foot of the chosen; And the house of the worshipped Kâbah be filled with his presence.”