8-Belief and Islam - Hakikat Kitabevi

against Islam. Islam does not reject scientific knowledge. It
rejects omission of learning religious knowledge and of the
duties of worshipping. Nor does scientific knowledge deny
Islam. On the contrary, it confirms and verifies it.
Because the ’âlam is hâdith, it must have a creator who
created it from nothing, since, as we have explained above, no
event can take place by itself. Today, thousands of medicines,
household appliances, industrial and commercial goods,
electronic equipments, and weaponry are manufactured in
factories. Most of them are produced through sophisticated
calculations and after hundreds of tests. Do they say that even
one of them became existent by themselves? No, they say that
these are made consciously and with discretion and each and
every one of them requires a maker; yet they claime that
millions of substances related to the living and lifeless and the
newly found things and events, the structures of which are still
unknown, were self-produced accidentally. What could this be,
if not hypocrisy, strong obstinacy or clear stupidity? It is evident
that there is only one Creator who makes the existence of every
substance and motion possible. This creator is Wâjib al-wujûd,
that is, He did not come into being after being nonexistent; He
must necessarily be eternally existent. He does not need
anything for His existence. If He had not necessarily existed
eternally, He would have been of mumkin al-wujûd, or hâdith, a
creature as the ’âlam is; like a creature, He would have been
created out of nothing or, through changes, out of another
creature which, too, had to be created by another creator, thus
an infinite number of creators being necessary; if we think in the
same way as we have explained above that changes in
creatures cannot be infinite, it will be understood that there
cannot be an infinite number of creators and that creation was
begun by a first and only creator. Because, if creators’ creating
one another one after the other had gone back to eternity, there
would have been no creator to begin with, and no creator would
have to exist. Therefore, the first non-created creator is the
Unique Creator of all creatures. There is no creator before or
after Him. The Creator is not created. He always exists. If He
ceased to exist for a moment, all creatures would also cease to
exist. Wâjib al-wujûd does not need anything in any respect. He
who has created the earth, the heavens, atoms and the living in
such a regular and calculated order should be omnipotent,
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