Belief and Islam

Custom to burn with fire. If He wills not to burn, He prevents
burning even in fire. He did not burn Ibrâhîm ‘’alaihis-salâm’ in
fire; because He loved him very much, He suspended His
Custom. [1]
[As a matter of fact, He creates also substances that
prevent fire’s burning. Chemists have been finding those
substances.]
If Allâhu ta’âlâ had willed, He could have created everything
without means, burning without fire, nourish us without us eating
and make us fly without an airplane and hear from a long
distance without a radio. But He did men the favour of creating
everything through some intermediaries. He willed to create
certain things through certain intermediaries. He did His works
under intermediaries. He concealed His Power behind
intermediaries. He who wants Him to create something holds on
to its means and thus obtains it. [2]
If Allâhu ta’âlâ did not create His Works through
intermediaries, no one would need anybody else; everybody would
ask everything directly from Allâhu ta’âlâ and would have
recourse to nothing; there would not be social relations between
people such as the superior and the subordinate, foreman and
workman, pupil and teacher and so forth, and thus this world and
the next would be in disorder and there would not be any
difference between the beautiful and the loathsome, good and evil,
the obedient and the disobedient.
If Allâhu ta’âlâ had willed, He would have created His Custom
in some other way and He would have created everything
[1] As a matter of fact, Allâhu ta’âlâ created substances to prevent the
burning of fire. Chemists discover these substances.
[2] He who wants to light a lamp uses matches; he who wants to extract
oil from olive uses crushing and grinding tools; he who has a headache
takes an aspirin; he who wants to go to Paradise and attain infinite
favours adapts himself to Islam; he who shoots himself with a pistol
or who drinks poison will die; he who drinks water when in a sweat
will lose his health; he who commits sins and loses his îmân will go to
Hell. Whatever intermediary a person applies, he will obtain the thing
for which that intermediary has been made a means. He who reads
Islamic books learns Islam, likes it, and becomes a Muslim. He who
lives amongst the irreligious and listens to what they say becomes
ignorant of Islam. Most of those who are ignorant of Islam become
disbelievers. When a person gets on a vehicle, he goes to the place it
has been assigned to go.
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