3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

of the latter, preexistence of its maker is necessary. ‘Eternal
past’ means ‘without beginning.’ If something had not existed in
the beginning, things that would ensue from it would not exist,
either, that is, all of the things we see and know would
necessarily be nonexistent. Then, it is obvious that everything
ensues from only one thing which, having been nonexistent
before, was made existent, created later. Although the
materialistic theory of ‘existence from the eternal past’ can
never apply to substances and objects, it becomes a valid and
indispensable fact when it comes to the Unique Creator, who
created all substances but who is not a substance. Saying so,
therefore, does not cause the contradiction stated above. As it
is seen, there is the One Being who is eternal. This Being is,
contrary to what materialists, naturalists or communists
suppose, unlike the insensible, inert and short-lived objects that
we know and which soon perish and rot. This Eternal Being is
Allah, the One Who is not material, Who resembles nothing,
knows, sees and dominates everything and in Whom Muslims
believe. Everything was and is created by Him. Substances,
objects, living beings and various energies, which we call
‘nature’, are not creative as unbelievers suppose. Allâhu ta’âlâ
created all of them, gave them the power of affecting one
another and made the old ones to be causes and means for His
creating new ones. Allâhu ta’âlâ does not need such causes or
the effects of causes. He could create without any means, too.
Yet He creates through causes and means. There is wisdom,
benefits for His human slaves in His creating through causes.
One of such benefits is that man, seeing or hearing from others
the effects and properties given to these causes, uses material
and non-material causes. On the one hand, by establishing new
syntheses and analyses, he causes the creation of new
materials and objects, and various industrial plants and
factories; on the other hand, his heart and moral values are
purified and man thus resembles angels, becomes a Walî of
Allah and attains ma’rifat-Allah. Man can obtain something by
clinging to its cause. Applying, clinging to causes is a prophetic
behaviour. The human mind or power, too, causes Allâhu
ta’âlâ’s creation and forms a ring on the chain of causes.
Naturalists’ and communists’ considering causes as creative
resembles a child’s saying, “Dad created chocolate,” when its
father brings chocolate to it. For, the child sees its father as
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