Belief and Islam

e one, but there should be no change in Him. If His power were
not infinite, if He were not omniscient, He would not have been
able to create creatures in such a regular and calculated order. If
there were more than one creators, and when their wishes for
creating something would not concur, the ones whose wishes were
left undone would not be creators and the things that would have
been created would be all mixed up. For further information,
please read the Arabic and Turkish commentaries to ’Alî Ûshî’s
(d. 575 A.H. [1180]) Qasîdat al-Amâlî.
No change occurs in the Creator. Before creating the universe
He was the same as He is now. As He created everything out of
nothing, likewise He always and still cerates everything; otherwise,
any change would indicate being a creature and having been
created from nothing. We have explained above that He always
exists and will never cease to exist. Therefore, no change occurs in
Him. As creatures needed Him in their creation initially, so they
need Him every moment. He alone creates everything, makes
every change. He creates everything through a means so that men
can survive and be civilized, and so that everything will be in order.
As He creates causes, likewise He creates the power, the effect in
causes. Man cannot create anything. Man’s work is only to be a
medium in causes’ affecting substances.
To eat when hungry, to take medicine when sick, to strike a
match for lighting a candle, to pour some acid on zinc for obtaining
hydrogen, to mix lime with clay and to heat the mixture up for
making cement, to feed the cow for getting milk, to build a hydroelectric
power-station for generating electricity and to construct
any kind of factory are all examples of acting as mediums, using
the causes, so that Allâhu ta’âlâ will create new things. Man’s will
and power, too, are the means created by Him. And men are
means for Allâhu ta’âlâ’s creating. Allâhu ta’âlâ wants to create in
this manner. As is seen, it would be an ignorant, absurd word
incompatible with reason and science to say, “So and so created,”
or “We created.”
Men have to love the unique Creator, Who creates them,
makes them survive and creates and sends the things they need.
They should be His servants and slaves. That is, every creature has
to worship and obey and respect Him. This fact is written at length
in the letter in the introduction to the current book. He Himself
declared that the Name of this Wâjib al-wujûd, of this Deity, of this
God, who is One, is Allah. Men have no right to change His Name
which He Himself made known. An act which would be done
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