From: irfan@maxwell.ece.wisc.edu (Irfan Alan)
Subject: EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE OF ALLAH (THE GOD), PART-3
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Electrical & Computer Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: 23 Jan 93 14:37:47 CST

A TREATISE ON NATURE

EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE OF ALLAH SWA (THE GOD)
AND THE IMPOSSIBILITIES OF THE WAYS TAKEN BY ATHEISTS,
NATURALISTS AND MATERIALISTS

A TRANSLATION from the COLLECTION OF RISALE-I NUR
"RISALAT-UT TABI'AT" (A TREATISE ON NATURE),
AUTHORIZED by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi.

NARRATOR: IRFAN ALAN  

NOTE from the NARRATOR: Those people who are approaching to 
learn the matter discussed in this treatise with objective 
mind should not pay attention to the heavy language used here.  
But, those  pople who are approching to the matter to make 
fun of and sarcasm about it blindly before studying the 
essentials of the matter, they are the ones who are addressed 
with that heavy language as the initial reason of its writing is 
explained in PART-1 by the author.    

A DROPLET FROM THE VAST OCEAN OF MIRACULOUS QUR'AN
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                   PART 3 
                
AUZUBILLAHIMINASSAYTANIRRACIYM BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIYM
(I seek refuge to Allah from the Satan rejected, stoned. 
 In the name of ALLAH, the Merciful, the Compassionate)


THE SECOND WAY:
	This is expressed by the phrase, "It Forms itself".  
It, too, involves many impossibilities and is absurd and 
impossible in many aspects.  We shall explain three 
examples of these impossibilities.

First Impossibility:
	Oh you obstinate denier!  Your egotism has made 
you so stupid that somehow you decide to accept a hundred
impossibilities all at once.  For you yourself are a being 
and not some simple substance, inanimate and unchanging.  
Rather, you are like an extremely well-ordered
machine that is constantly being renewed and like a
wonderful palace that is undergoing continious change.
Particles are working unceasingly in your body.  Your
body has a connection and mutual relations with the 
universe, in particular with regard to sustenance and the
perpetuation of the species, and the particles that work
within it are careful not to spoil that relationship nor 
to break the connection.  In this cautious manner they
set about their work, as though taking the whole universe
into account.  Seeing your relationships within it, they 
take up their positions accordingly.  And you benefit 
with your external and inner senses in accordance
with the wonderful positions that they take.  
	If you do not accept that the particles in your body
are tiny officials in motion in accordance with the law
of the Pre-Eternal and All-Powerful One, or that they
are an army, or the nibs of the pen of Divine Determining,
with each particle being a point, then in every particle
working in your eye there would have to be an eye such as
could see every limb and part of your body as well as 
the entire universe, with which you are connnected.  In 
addition to this, you would have to ascribe to each particle
an intelligence, equivalent to that of a hundred geniuses,
sufficient to know and recognize all your past and your 
future, and your forebears and decendents, the origins
of all the elements of your being, and the sources of all
your sustenance.
	To attribute the knowledge and consciousness of a 
thousand Plato's to a single particle of one such as you
who does not possess even a particle's worth of intelligence 
in matters of this kind is a crazy superstition a thousand 
times over.

Second Impossibility:
	Your being resebles a thousand-domed wondrous 
palace in which the stones stand together in suspension 
and without support.  Indeed, your being is a thousand 
times more wonderful than such a palace, for the palace 
of your being is being renewed continously in perfect order.  
Leaving aside your truly wonderful spirit, heart and 
other subtle faculties, each member of your body resembles
a single domed part of the palace.  Like the stones of a 
dome, the particles stand together in perfect balance 
and order demonstrating the eye and the tounge, for 
example, each to be a wondrous building, extraordinary 
work of art, and miracle of power.
	If these particles were not each officials dependent 
on the Command of the Master Architect of the Universe, 
then each particle would have to be both absolutely 
dominant over all other particles in the body and absolutely
subordinate to each of them; and both equal to each and, 
with regard to its dominant position, opposed; and both the 
origin and source of most of the attributes that pertain only 
to the Necessarily Existent One and extremely restricted; 
and both in absolute form and in the form of a perfectly 
ordered individual artefact that could only, through the 
mystery of Unity, be the work of the Single One of Unity.
Anyone with even a particle of consciousness would 
understand what an obvious impossibility this is; to 
attribute such an artefact to those particles.

Third Impossiblity:
	If your being is not 'written' by the pen the 
Pre-Eternal and All-Powerful One, Who is the Single
One of Unity, and is instead 'printed' by nature and causes, 
there would have to be pringting-blocks in nature not only 
to the number of the cells in your body, but to the number 
of their thousands of combinations, which are arranged in 
concentric circles.  Because, for example, if this book 
which we hold in our hand is written, a single pen may 
write it relying on the knowledge of its writer,  If, on the 
other hand, it is not written and it is not attributed to its 
writer's pen, and if it is said that it exists of its own accord 
or it is ascribed to nature, then, as a printing book, it would 
be necessary for there to be a different iron pen for each 
letter so that it could be printed.  In a printing press there 
have to be pieces of type to the number of letters in the alphabet, 
then the letters in the book come into existence by means 
of them; pens to the number of those letters being necessary 
in place of a single pen.
	Indeed, as may be seen, sometimes a whole page is 
written in a single large letter from among those letters with a 
small pen in fine script, in which case  a thousand pens would 
be necessary for one letter.  Rather, if it took the form of
your body, wit all its components one within the other in concentric 
circles, then there would have to be printing-blocks in each 
circle, for each component, to the number of the combinations 
that they form.
 	Now, see, if you claim this, which involves hundred 
impossibilities, to be possible, then again, if they are not 
attributed to a single pen, for those well-ordered artistic 
pieces of type, faultless printing-blocks and letters to the 
same number as themselves would be necessary.  And they 
too would have to have been made;  and they too would 
have to have been well-ordered and artistically fashioned.  
And so on.  It would carry on in succession and infinitum.
	There, you, too, understand!  This way of thinking 
is such that it involves impossibilities and superstitions 
to the number of particles in your body.  Oh denier of Allah!  
(The God!)  See this, and quit this way of misguidence!


THIRD WAY : .....
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To be continued Allah Willing
NARRATOR: Irfan Alan, A Servant of Islam


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