55 Preface في مَقعَدِ صِدقٍ عِندَ مَليكٍ مُقتَدِرٍYusuf AliIn an Assembly of Truth,1 in the Presence of2 a Sovereign Omnipotent.3While we possess our bodily senses, the best conceptions we can form are through our sense-perceptions, and the Garden is a good symbol from that point of view. The next higher understanding of spiritual truth is through our intellect and social satisfaction. This is best symbolised by the Assembly of Truth?the gathering in which we sit with our fellows and enjoy the realisation of Truth and the dissipation of falsehoods and half-truths.But there is a higher conception still, something so intensely spiritual that it can only be expressed by reference to the Presence of God. (R).Muqtadir, which is translated Omnipotent, implies something more: the eighth-declension form denotes not only complete mastery, but the further idea that the mastery arises form God’s own nature, and depends on nothing else whatever. (R).