Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

of new materials and objects, and various industrial plants and
factories; on the other hand, his heart and moral values are
purified and man thus resembles angels, becomes a Walî of Allah
and attains ma’rifat-Allah. Man can obtain something by clinging
to its cause. Applying causes, and holding on to them, is a
prophetic behaviour. The human mind or power, too, causes
Allâhu ta’âlâ’s creation and forms a ring on the chain of causes.
Naturalists’ and communists’ considering causes as creative
resembles a child’s saying, “Dad created chocolate,” when its
father brings chocolate to it. For, the child sees its father as giving
the chocolate and knows nothing else.
Again Ahmed ’Âsim Efendi wrote: “If Allâhu ta’âlâ were
hâdith but not qadîm (eternal), He would have been created by a
creator, who, if qadîm, would have been Allah, or, if hâdith, should
have been created by another creator. Thus, there would have
been a chain of creators who were not qadîm. The existence of this
chain, called teselsul is impossible. That teselsul is impossible is
proved by burhân-i tatbîq (supra-application). Let’s arrange the
infinite creators of one thing, beginning from the first to infinity
side by side. Let’s arrange a second row of creators beginning from
the second creator. The second row, which is infinite on one end,
is shorter than the first one since it lacks the first creator. The short
row, then, cannot be said to be ‘infinite.’ Since the second row
cannot be infinite, the first row, which is greater than the second
only by one number, cannot be infinite, either. That is, a half line
with one end at infinity can be assumed, yet such a thing cannot
exist. There cannot be teselsul. An infinite number of creators
cannot exist. There can be one creator who exists infinitely. This
One Creator is eternal in the past and eternal in the future, and
exists endlessly. His existence depends on Himself, not on
someone else. If a person who has reached puberty and heard that
Allâhu ta’âlâ exists eternally and that everything else was created
from nothing does not use his reason and thought and denies, or
uses his reason and thought but denies and says, ‘Reason does not
accept it; it is not agreeable with science,’ he becomes a kâfir. He
will suffer endless torture and burning in Hell.” On the other hand,
a person who has not heard it and, therefore, does not use his
thought and thus does not know or believe in Him becomes a kâfir,
too, and he will not go to Paradise; yet, he will not go to Hell,
either. He will not be subjected to the penalty inflicted on kâfirs;
yet he will be made into soil and vanish after his questioning is
completed. Allâhu ta’âlâ declared in the fifteenth âyat of ’Îsâ Sûra:
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