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Life's Basic Questions -
Creation Indicates God\'s Existence
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Written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
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Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
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Fourteenth window: Consider the following verses:
Say: "In whose hand is the dominion of all things?" (23:88)
There is nothing but its treasuries are with us. (15:21)
There is not a moving creature but He grasps its forelock. (11:56)
Surely my Lord records and preserves all things. (11:57)
These verses state that everything in all circumstances and aspects of its
life and existence needs a single Creator of Majesty. Looking at creatures we
see an absolute force within absolute weakness and impressions and inscriptions
of an absolute power in absolute impotence. For example awakening the
life‑force in plant seeds and roots is extraordinary.
There also are manifestations of absolute wealth within absolute poverty and
sterility like the poverty of Earth and trees in winter and their glittering
profusion in spring. Sparks of absolute life are observed in absolutely lifeless
matter (e.g. the transformation of mineral elements into living entities).
Manifestations of all‑encompassing consciousness are seen in absolute ignorance.
as when everything acts as if consciously conforming to the universe's order.
life's principles and wisdom's demands. Such manifestations open windows onto
the necessary Existence and Unity of One Absolutely Powerful. Strong. Rich and
Knowing as well as Living and Self‑Subsistent. In their totality they point to
a luminous highway (the way of believing in God and His Oneness) on a large
scale.
If you ascribe creativity to nature and accept it as self‑originated instead
of recognizing Divine Power you must acknowledge that everything contains an
infinite force and power wisdom and skill and the capacity to see know and
direct most other things. |
Life's Basic Questions 
