Belief and Islam

does not deter us from believing this fact. Not to believe it means
to denigrate science and signifies hostility 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 being 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 itself? No, they say that these are made consciously and
with discretion and each and every one of them requires a maker;
yet they claim 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, mulish obstinacy or sheer idiocy? It
is evident that there is only one Creator who makes the existence
of every substance and motion possible. This creator is Wâjib alwujûd,
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. For, 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 exist. Therefore, the first noncreated
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,
omniscient, able to create at once whatever He wishes, and should
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