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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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Twenty‑third window: Consider the following verse:
He created death and life. (67:2)
Life is Divine Power's most luminous and beautiful miracle. Divine Unity's
most brilliant and strongest proof the most comprehensive and polished mirror
reflecting the Eternally‑Besought‑of‑All. Life manifests the Ever‑Living and
Self‑Subsistent One with all His Names and essential Qualities for it is a
compounded light formed by the manifestations of many Divine Attributes
together just as the seven colors are compounded in light and various medicinal
substances in natural confections. Similarly life is a reality compounded of
many Divine Attributes' manifestations causing it to have many attributes. Some
of these attributes develop through senses and become distinct. Most of them.
however make themselves felt through sentiments feelings and emotions and
known as a result of life's "boiling."
Life also comprises providence mercy grace and wisdom which are the most
substantial elements in maintaining and administering the universe. It is as if
life brings them along wherever it goes. For example when life enters a body.
the Name the All‑Wise also shows itself therein and builds and arranges that
"nest" of life with perfect wisdom. The Names the All‑Munificent and
All‑Compassionate manifest at the same instant furnish and decorate that nest
in accordance with its needs and respectively bestow on it all kinds of
favors to continue and perfect that life. And the Name the Provider manifests
Itself by supplying life with the material and spiritual nourishment necessary
for its maintenance and flourishing as well as by storing a certain amount of
that nourishment in its body.
This means that life is like a focal point at which various Names or
Attributes meet or rather are united into each other to form one entity. It is
as if life is entirely knowledge while simultaneously being power wisdom.
mercy and so on. Due to its comprehensive nature life is a mirror to the
Eternally‑Besought‑of‑All that reflects the essential Qualities of the Divine
Being's Essence. As a result the Necessarily Existent One the Ever‑Living and
Self‑Subsistent creates and shows life in the greatest profusion. He also
concentrates all things around life to make them serve it for life is entrusted
with a very important duty.
It is not easy to be a mirror to God as the Eternally‑Besought‑of‑All. The
innumerable new lives and spirits as well as the essences or identities of
lives that we constantly witness being brought into existence instantly and
from nothing show the necessary Existence sacred Attributes and Beautiful
Names of the Necessarily Existent. Ever‑Living and Self‑Subsistent One just as
rays of light show the sun. If you do not recognize the sun and admit its
existence you have to deny the light pervading daytime. In the same way if you
deny the Sun of Oneness the Ever‑Living and Self‑Subsistent the Giver of
Life
and the One Causing to Die you have to deny the existence of all living beings
on this planet from their appearance to Earth's final destruction. You would
have to admit to yourself that you are like the unconscious most ignorant
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Life's Basic Questions 
