[230] And from it: And from that is what is reported in the Sermon of Glorification (Khutbat al-Iftikhar), narrated by Al-Asbagh bin Nubatah, his saying: "I am the reckoner of the creation, I am the one who settles them in their settlements. And whoever denies that I have in the earth a return after a return, and a coming back after a return, newly as I was anciently, has indeed rejected us. And whoever rejects us has indeed rejected Allah."
...up to his saying: "I am the master of the wondrous signs, I am the knower of the secrets of the creations. I am the caller to them 'Am I not your Lord?' by a sustaining command that has not ceased 1 . I am the gatherer of the creation to Allah by the word through which the creations are gathered. I am the originator of the creatures, I am the compiler of the rulings, I am the master of the gathering and the scattering,




