Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

power, every moment so that they may keep on existing, lest they
will be annihilated. [Men’s combining substances with one another,
formation of new substances] by the variation of events and
conditions, veils and conceals Allah’s deed, His making, from us. In
order that His might, His power will appear, He has applied some
means for His making and creating. A person who has wisdom,
who is vigilant and who has salved, polished his heart’s eye by
obeying Prophets ‘’alaihimussalawâtu wassalâm’, will perceive that
these causes and means, too, have been created by Allâhu ta’âlâ,
that they need His might every moment, that they were created by
Him and are kept in existence by Him, that they are lifeless,
ineffectual, inactive and inert, that they cannot affect others, which
are like themselves, and that they cannot create others, which are,
again, like themselves. He will realize that behind these causes and
means there is an almighty power who creates them and who gives
them effectuality, strength and energy. When a wise person sees
something lifeless moving he infers the existence of some power
that makes it move. He knows that an object at rest cannot move
by itself, and that only some exterior force can make it move. This
means that the motion of a lifeless object does not conceal from
wise people the existence of some agent, some power that sets it
into motion. That the moving object is inert informs the clever
about the existence of an agent, of a power owner. Thus, all causes
and means proclaim the existence of Allâhu ta’âlâ and His power
to wise people. But idiots, seeing the object move, and unable to
see or infer the existence of the agent, of the power owner, suppose
that it moves by itself. Being unwise, they think that the moving
lifeless object has power. Denying the agent and the power that
makes it move, they become unbelievers. Allah’s making and
creating everything through causes and means causes idiots, the
unwise to deny, to disbelieve. It shows to the owners of wisdom and
common sense the way to salvation. To understand the existence
and the oneness and the power of Allâhu ta’âlâ by seeing the causes
and means is possible only with Prophets’ ‘’alaihimussalawâtu
wassalâm’ guiding and awakening. The human mind cannot
understand these by itself. Some people suppose that it would be
more compatible with greatness if the media did not exist and
everything was created without means. They say that there is no
effectuality in the media, and that without the means interfering
everything comes to being directly by Allâhu ta’âlâ’s creating. They
do not realize that to annul the media would mean to defile the
hikmat, [that is, what Allâhu ta’âlâ decides to be good,] and His
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