Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

says that some creatures, heavens, stars, elements, minds and
souls are eternal, it will be understood that he is an idiot. All
religions have taught that everything other than Allâhu ta’âlâ is
hâdith, that is, they were created afterwards while they had been
nonexistent. This unanimity of all religions is stated by Hujjat-ul-
Islâm Imâm-i Muhammad Ghazâlî in his book al-Munqidhu
’aniddalâl, in which he writes also that people who say that some
of the things in the ’âlam are eternal will become disbelievers. As
is seen, to say that one of the creatures is eternal means to go out
of Islam and to become a philosopher. All things other than
Allâhu ta’âlâ were nonexistent, and they will cease to exist again.
Towards Doomsday, stars will leave their places and disperse,
heavens will be rent asunder, and mountains also will be torn to
pieces, and all will be annihilated. The Qur’ân informs with this
fact clearly. All groups of Muslims have stated so unanimously.
al-Hâqqa Sûra purports: “Once the Sûr is blown, the earth and
mountains shall be lifted up and shaken off. That day, end of the
world shall come, the sky shall be divided and rent asunder.”
Takwîr Sûra purports: “When the sun shall darken, the stars shall
fall and the mountains shall be broken to pieces and dispersed...”;
an âyat-i-kerîma in Infitâr Sûra purports: “When the sky shall be
broken apart and the stars shall be dispersed and annihilated...”
and the last âyat of Qasas Sûra purports: “Everything shall be
annihilated, He only shall remain!”
These and many other similar âyats exist in the Qur’ân. It will
be ignorance not to believe that they will be annihilated. Or it is
to believe in the falsely-sequinned lies of the philosophers who
deny the Qur’ân. As is seen, it is one of the conditions of îmân to
believe that creatures will be annihilated as well as to believe that
they were created from nothing. It is definitely necessary to
believe it. Some savants said that seven things, namely the ’Arsh,
the Kursî, the Lawh, the Pen, Paradise, Hell, the Rûh, will not be
annihilated, and they will remain eternally. But those savants do
not mean, by saying so, that those creatures cannot be
annihilated. They mean that Allâhu ta’âlâ will annihilate
whichever He chooses of the things which He created and He will
not annihilate some others which He chooses, for uses and
reasons which He, alone, knows; those creatures will eternally
exist. Allâhu ta’âlâ does what He wishes and commands what He
wishes. As is understood from what has been written so far, the
’âlam, that is, everything, exists through Allah’s Will and Power.
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