Nature Or The Creator

Indeed, just as in this example, every living being and every plant is a living compound composed of precise quantities and proportions of numerous different substances. If all of this is attributed to causes and elements, and it is claimed that causes bring these things into existence, then such a claim is just as irrational, absurd, and far removed from reason as imagining that the medicine in the pharmacy came into existence merely because the bottles happened to overturn.

In short, within this vast pharmacy of the universe, living beings and plants—which are composed of different substances according to the measure of divine determining—can come into existence only through infinite wisdom, boundless knowledge, and all-encompassing will.

Whoever claims that blind and deaf elements, natural processes, and causes perform this work is far more foolish than a drunken madman who imagines that the extraordinary medicine formed by itself when the bottles overturned.

Indeed, such unbelief is nothing but a foolish, irrational, and senseless absurdity.

The Second Impossibility

If everything is not attributed to Qadīr-i Dhul-JalālAllah, Who has power over all things and Whose greatness and majesty are boundless., Who is Wāhid-i AhadAllah, the One and Unique, whose oneness is manifest throughout all creation., but instead to causes, then it becomes necessary for countless elements and causes in the universe to intervene in the formation of every living creature.

Yet the coming together of numerous conflicting causes with perfect order, delicate balance, and complete harmony within the body of a tiny creature such as a fly is so obviously impossible that anyone possessing even a trace of reason would admit that it cannot be.

Indeed, the tiny body of a fly is connected with most of the elements and causes in the universe; it is even a summary of them. If its existence is not attributed to Qadīr-i AzalīAllah, whose power encompasses all things and whose existence is without beginning., then those material causes must be personally present in its immediate vicinity during its formation. They must enter its tiny body together, and even enter a single cell of its eye, which itself is only a small part of its body.

For if a cause is material, it must be present alongside and within the thing it produces.

In that case, one would have to assume that the elements and constituents of the universe are physically present within that minute cell—a space so small that even the feet of two flies could not fit upon the tip of a needle—and that they operate there as skilled specialists. 

Indeed, even the most foolish sophists would be ashamed of such a belief.

The Third Impossibility

The established principle

اَلْوَاحِدُ لَا يَصْدُرُ اِلَّا عَنِ الْوَاحِدِThat which possesses unity can only proceed from One.

clarifies the following truth: