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IMPORTANT
EXPLANATIONS TO UNDERSTAND
CERTAIN
IMPORTANT TRUTHS OF THE QURAN
In
the Name of God, the Merciful, the
Compassionate.
Alif
Lam Ra. A Book whose verses were
established and set clear, and
then distinguished, from One
All-Wise, All-Aware .
(11:1)
In
order to help those who do not have
enough submission and obedience to reach
some of the elevated truths of the Wise
Quran and Hadith, the true interpreter
of the Quran, I will point out a number
of the comparisons of those truths which
are like steps to reach up to them, and
I will explain in conclusion a lesson
and a way of attracting Divine favor.
(God)
created the heavens and the earth in six
days.
(7:54)
A
Quranic day corresponds to a very long
period, according to the dimension or
the sphere of existence, such as a
thousand or fifty thousand years. This
implies that the human and animal
kingdoms will last ‘six days’. In
order to be convinced of this Quranic
truth, one should consider and reflect
on the traveling, passing worlds which
the Majestic Creator creates every day,
every year, every century, each of which
is like a day. Indeed, it is as though
the worlds are each a guest like man. By
the command of the All-Majestic One,
each season the world is filled and
emptied.
Manifest
Book and Manifest Register or Record
Not
a thing, fresh or dry, but it is in
a Manifest Book.
(6:59)
Everything
We have numbered in a Manifest
Register.
(36:12)
Not
so much as the weight of an atom in
heaven and earth escapes from Him,
neither is anything smaller than
that, or greater, but it is in a
Manifest Book.
(36:3)
These
verses state that all things together
with their life cycles were recorded
before their worldly existence; they are
recorded during their worldly existence,
and all the instances of their worldly
existence are left behind recorded after
they depart from the world. In order to
have a firm conviction of this exalted
truth, it suffices for one to observe
how the All-Majestic Inscriber
encapsulates and preserves in the seeds
and roots of the innumerable
well-ordered creatures which He recruits
each season on the earth, and
particularly in the spring, the indexes
of their existence, life-histories, and
principles according to which they act,
and how He records and preserves all
things, fresh or dry, after their death,
in perfect order with the Pen of His
Destiny in their fruits, in their seeds
that resemble chips of wood and bones.
It is as if each spring in particular is
attached like a flower to the face of
the earth in extremely well-ordered and
well-balanced fashion by the hand of One
All-Beautiful and All-Majestic, and then
plucked from it; each is placed on it,
then removed. While this is the reality,
it is a most strange misguidance of man
that although it is, as a manifestation
of the reflection of the Supreme
Preserved Tablet, which is itself a page
upon which the Pen of Divine Destiny
pre-recorded everything, an index of the
art of the Lord, the misguided people
give the name ‘nature’ to this
inscription of creation, this design of
art, this passive mould of wisdom, and
they consider ‘nature’ itself to be
originative, creative and active. This
view of the heedless people is as
distant from the truth as the earth from
the Pleiades.
The
distance between God and His creatures
and
creation with a mere command
Consider
the exalted truth expressed by verses
like:
Indeed,
His Command when He wills a thing
is to say to it, Be! and it is.
(36:82)
The
affair of the Hour is but as a
twinkling of the eye.
(16:77)
We
are nearer to him than his jugular
vein.
(50:16)
The
angels and spirits ascend to Him
in a day the measure of which is
fifty thousands years.
(70:4)
The
Absolutely Powerful One creates things
so easily and speedily and with no
physical contact with them that it
appears as if He creates with a mere
command. Besides, although the
All-Powerful Maker is infinitely near to
creatures, they are infinitely distant
from Him. Furthermore, despite His
infinite grandeur, He does not exclude
even the most insignificant thing from
the importance He attaches in designing
and fashioning creation, nor does He
deprive it of the beauty of His art. The
perfect order which is observed in
creation despite the absolute facility
witnessed in its being called into
existence testifies to this Qur’anic
truth. The following comparison explains
how this is possible and serves to make
it more easily comprehensible:
Being
like a dense, solid mirror to the Divine
Name of Light, the sun is infinitely
near to all transparent and shiny
things; rather, it is nearer to them
than their own selves, having an effect
on them in numerous ways such as through
its manifestation, its image and
reflection. By contrast, those
transparent things are millions of miles
away from it, having no effect on it in
any way, nor can claim nearness to it.
The presence of the sun with its light
and image in every transparent object,
whether big or small as a particle, and
its reflection in opaque and translucent
things with its heat and the color it
gives to each, and in other ways of
affecting them, prove this fact. The
extent of its luminosity, the degree of
its shining, increases the capacity and
comprehensiveness of its penetration. It
is because of the greatness of its
luminosity that even the tiniest things
cannot hide or escape from it. This
means that the sun’s immensity and ‘grandeur’
do not exclude even the most
insignificant particles, the tiniest
things, from the sphere of its
comprehension, rather it includes them
in it. The sun manifests itself by God’s
leave in things from particles to
planets, from droplets to the surface of
vast oceans, with such ease and speed
and over so comprehensive an area that
if, supposing the impossible, we were to
imagine the sun as acting of its own
with free will, we would have to suppose
that it performed all these mighty
disposals with a mere command. A
particle and a planet is equal before
its manifestation. The heat and the
light it gives to the whole surface of a
vast ocean, it gives also with perfect
order to the finest particle in
accordance with its capacity.
Thus,
we see clearly that the sun, which is a
light-giving ‘bubble’ in the ‘ocean’
of the heavens and a small, solid mirror
to the manifestation to the Absolutely
Powerful One’s Name of Light, displays
examples of the principles of this
truth. So, we believe, and everyone must
believe, with complete certainty as
though witnessing it, that the
All-Majestic One, Who is the Light of
Lights, the Illuminator of Light, the
Determiner of Light, and in comparison
to Whose Knowledge and Power the light
and heat of the sun are as impenetrative
as earth, is all-present and all-seeing
and infinitely near to all things
through His Knowledge and Power, and
that things are infinitely distant from
Him, and that He does things so easily
and with no preparation that it is as if
He creates with a mere command, and that
nothing, whether big or small,
particular or universal, is excluded
from the sphere of His Power, and that
His greatness encompasses all things.
God’s
greatness and Grandeur
The
greatness of the Eternal Monarch and the
grandeur of His Divinity encompass a
limitless area of disposal stretching
from
They
measure not God with His true
measure. The earth altogether
shall be His handful on the Day of
Resurrection, and the heavens
shall be rolled up in His right
hand.
(39:67)
to
Know
that God comes between a man and
his heart.
(8:24)
and
from
God
is creator of everything: He is
Guardian over everything .
(39:62)
to
God
knows what they keep secret and
what they disclose.
(2:77)
and
from
He
created the heavens and the earth.
(7:54)
to
He
has created you and what you do.
(37:96)
and
from
God
has willed this! There is no power
except with God.
(18:39)
to
But
you will not unless God wills.
(76:30)
Such
being the truth, what is the reason for
His severe criticisms and awesome
threats in the Quran against mankind, so
infinitely weak and powerless, destitute
and needy, who have partial will only
with no power to create? In order to
have a conviction of this profound and
exalted truth, consider the following
two comparisons:
Suppose
there is a splendid garden in which are
innumerable fruit-bearing and flowering
plants. Many servants are charged with
attending it. The duty of one of the
servants is to open the valve of the
water canal so that the water can spread
throughout the garden and every being
can benefit from it. If this servant
shows laziness and does not open the
valve, thereby preventing the growth of
the garden or causing it to wither, then
all the other servants have the right to
complain about that servant, for their
duties will be fruitless or they
themselves will suffer harm.
For
example, if, by neglecting the small
responsibility assigned to him in a
mighty royal ship, one ordinary
individual damages the work of all the
others engaged in service on that ship,
to the extent that some of their work
comes to nothing, the owner of the ship
will complain bitterly about him in the
name of all the others. The man at fault
cannot excuse his neglect, saying: ‘I
am just an ordinary individual. I don’t
deserve such severity because of my
slight negligence.’ For a single
instance of non-existence can result in
many instances of non-existence [for
example: the removal of a single element
from a structure can result in many
elements falling out], whereas (causing
something to come into) existence yields
fruits according to itself. This is
because the existence of something is
dependent upon the existence of all the
necessary conditions and causes together
with all its necessary parts, while its
non-existence, its removal, is possible
through the non-existence or removal of
a single condition or a single component
of it. That is why ‘Destruction is
much easier than repair’ has become a
universally accepted principle. Since
unbelief and misguidance, rebellion and
disobedience are based on denial and
rejection, abandonment and
non-acceptance, albeit they appear,
superficially, to possess the marks of
positive existence, in reality they are
extinction and non-existence. Therefore,
they are a contagious crime; just as
they damage the results of the acts of
other beings, so too they draw a veil
over the manifestation of the beauties
of the Divine Names.
It
is in the name of all other beings who
have the right to make innumerable
complaints about rebellious man that the
Monarch of those beings criticizes him
awesomely. His doing so is perfect
wisdom. Rebellious man is certainly
deserving of His severe and awesome
threats.
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