1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

correct are called theories. The perfection of a theory is gauged
by how few hypotheses it relies on and at the same time how
many events it can explain. Haldene’s idea is a hypothesis after
all, and is very far from being a theory. If people do not remain
in this grade, but acquire correct knowledge about how the first
living creatures were created, it will be useful for Islâm, not
harmful. Everything, living or lifeless, was nonexistent and was
created later. Allahu ta’âlâ declares: “Research how I created
everything and see the order, the delicacy in My work!
Thus believe in Me and in the fact that My power and
knowledge are infinite!” Yes, the enemies of religion not only
say that the first living things came into existence by
themselves, but they also proclaim that the solar system, stars,
and various physical, chemical and biological events all came
into existence by themselves. Ahl-i Sunnat savants gave them
the necessary answers in thousands of their books, thus
silencing them all. They proved with documents that they are
wrong. We have explained in the first and third chapters of the
Second Fascicle how these fake scientists, who look upon
themselves as scientists, are wrong. Our religion declares that
Hadrat Âdam was created from sticky mud. It does not explain
in what manner other animals and plants were created. How
can Haldene’s hypothesis harm the religion then? Whether he
says it or Darwin or Ibni Sinâ (Avicenna) says it, Allahu ta’âlâ,
alone, moves, makes and creates everything. All forms of
energy are the manifestations of His power.
What undermines the îmân is to hold the belief that events
happened by themselves and to say that animals evolved from
one another initially from one-celled organisms into higher
structures and finally to man; science does not prove it true, nor
do scientists say so.
A passage from the book Tahâfut-ul-Falâsife by Imâm-i
Ghazâlî has been translated from Arabic into Turkish and has
been written on the forty-fifth page of the book Ma’rifatnâma.
There, he says, “Scientists’ words are of three types. Their
words of the first type explain the facts which scientific
experiments have discovered. Though these words of theirs
agree with Islâm, their wording is wrong. For instance, they say,
‘Nothing can move by itself. There is a power which makes
everything move. This power is a natural force. Everything is
made by nature.’ On the other hand, Islâm says, ‘Nothing can
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