Islams Reformers

dollar. The existence of the dollar indicates that it has been given
not from eternity but from someone first. In other words, if such a
chain of dependence were supposed to begin from eternity, every
being depending upon another being for its existence without
reaching a being whose existence did not depend upon another,
nothing would exist. As long as the existence of a being needed
another, which needed another and another, and thus one needed
another endlessly, nothing could be thought of existing; everything
which we see in existence would have to be nonexistent, for it
would also need something else which would have to exist before
itself, but which in reality did not exist, for it would also need
something else to exist before itself. It is the same with the third,
the forth, the fifth... it is always the same.
The existence of Hadrat Âdam can easily be understood after
this reasoning. If Hadrat Âdam had not existed and men’s fathers
had been infinite, there would have been no man on the earth; for,
if the number of fathers had been infinite, there would have been
neither the first father nor his children, that is, mankind. Since men
exist, the first father has to have existed.
It is very important to believe in the next world, like believing
in Allâhu ta’âlâ. If the next world did not exist, the good deeds
which have not been rewarded and the evils and wrongs that have
not been punished in this world would never be recompensed,
which would be a very great defect for this world which, as we see,
has the most delicately artistic and orderly characteristics. While
the smallest state or any society has a court of justice, this
tremendous world, which we call the Universe, will definitely have
a court of justice. The need in the next world for giving men their
rights is so important that men of idea in Europe, though they
cannot understand the existence of Allâhu ta’âlâ through science,
think over morals and accept His existence unanimously. To
comprehend the existence of Allâhu ta’âlâ by thinking over morals
means that, since it is seen that the conscience, which may always
go wrong and cannot control the spiritual responsibilities and is
not equally powerful in every person, is not able to protect the
morals and since it is also seen that virtues are not appreciated and
many an evil are common and cherished although everything in
the world has been created very orderly and beautifully, men’s
wrongdoings have to be recompensed in the next world.
It is very surprising that Europeans do not comprehend
Allah’s existence through science, even though scientific
knowledge, which discovers the dumbfounding regularity in,
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