From: irfan@maxwell.ece.wisc.edu (Irfan Alan)
Subject: EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE OF ALLAH (THE GOD), PART 5
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Date: 28 Jan 93 07:00:07 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 5

                 

AUZUBILLAHIMINASSAYTANIRRACIYM BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIYM

(I seek refuge to Allah from the Satan rejected, stoned.  

In the name of ALLAH, the Merciful, the Compassionate)



THIRD  IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE THIRD WAY:

(Third Way: "Nature necessitates it; nature makes it.")



	THIRD  IMPOSSIBILITY:

	The following two comparisons, which are included in other
parts of the Risale-i Nur, explain this impossiblity.



	First Comparison:  A wild savage entered a palace which had
been built in an empty desert,  and completed and adorned with
all the fruits of civilization.  He cast an eye over its
interior and saw thousands of well-ordered and artistically
fashioned objects.  Because of his boorishness and lack of
intelligence, he said, " None from outside had a hand in this,
one of the objects from inside must have made this palace
together with all of its contents", and started to invistigate. 
However, whatever he looked at, even his untaught intelligence
could not fathom out how it made those things.

	Later, he saw a note-book in which had been written the plan
and programme of the palace's construction, an index of its
contents and the rules of its administration.  For sure, the
note-book, too, which was without hand, eye or implement, like
the rest of the objects in the palace, was completly lacking the
ability to construct  and decorate the palace.  But, since he
saw that, in comparison with all the other things, the notebook
was related to the theoretical laws, he was obliged to say,
"There, it is this note-book that has formed, ordered and
adorned this palace, and has fashioned all these objects and set
them in their places."  And tranformed his uncouthness into
ludicrous jabber.

	Thus, exactly like this comparison, a boor who subscribed to
naturalist thought, which denies Allah (The God), entered the
palace of the universe, which is infinitely more well-ordered,
more perfect and everywhere full of miraculous instances of
wisdom than the palace in the comparison.  Not thinking that is
was the work of art of the Necessarily Existent One, Who is
outside the sphere of contingency, and shunning that idea, he
saw a collection of the laws of Divine Practice and index of
Dominical Art, which are like a slate for writing and erasing of
Divine Determining in the sphere of contingency, and like a
constantly changing note-book for the laws of the Functioning of
Divine Power, and are extremely mistakenly and erroneously given
the name 'nature', and he said;

	"These things require a cause and nothing else appears to have
the relationship with everything like this note-book does.  It
is true that reason will in no way accept that this unseeing,
unconcious and powerless note-book could carry out this
creation, which is the Work of Absolute Dominicality and which
requires infinite power.  But since I do not recognize the
Eternal Maker, the most plausible explanation is to say this
note-book made it and makes it, so I shall say that."

To which we reply:



	Oh you mistaken unfortunate! Your foolishness exceeds anything
imaginable! Lift your head out of the swamp of nature and look
beyond youself!  See an All-Glorious Maker to Whom all beings
from particles to planets testify with their all-different
tongues and to Whom they indicate with their fingers!  Behold
the Manifestation of the Pre-Eternal Inscriber, Who fashions the
palace, and Who writes its programme in the note-book!  Study
His decree, listen to the Qur'an ! And be delivered from that
delirious raving! 



	Second Comparison:  A rustic bumpkin entered the bounds of a
splendid palace and saw there the uniform actions of an
extremely orderly army carriying out its exercises.  He observed
a battalion, a regiment and a divison stand to attention, stand
at ease and march, and open fire when commanded as though they
were a single private.  Since his rude, uncultured mind could
not comprehend and denied that a commander had been given
command by the country's laws and by royal decree, he imagined
that the soldiers were attached to one another with strings.  He
thought of what wonderful string it must be, and was amazed.

	Later, he continued on his way till he came upon a magnificent
mosque like Aya-Sophia.  He enterd it at the time of Friday
prayer and watched the congregation of Muslims rising, bowing,
prostrating and sitting at the sound of a man's voice.  Since he
did not understand the Shari'a, which consists of a collection
of immaterial, revealed laws, nor the immaterial rules
proceeding from the lawgiver's command, he fancied the
congregation  to be bound to one another by material string, and
that this wonderful string had  subjected them and was making
them move like puppets.  And, coming up with this idea, which is
so ridiculous as to make even the most ignorant roar with
laughter, he went on his way.

	Exactly like this comparison, an atheist who subscribed to
naturalist thought, which is denial and pure brutishness,
entered the universe, which is a splendid barracks of the
Monarch of Pre-Eternity and Post-Eternity for His innumerable
forces , and well ordered mosque of that Pre-Eternal
All-Worshipped One.  He imagined the immaterial laws of the
ordering of the universe, which proceed from the Pre-Eternal
Monarch's Wisdom, each to have material and physical existence:
and supposed the Laws of the Soverignty of Dominicality, and the
Rules and Ordinances of Greater Shari'a, the Shari'a of
Creation, which are immaterial and exist only as knowledge, each
to have external, material, physical existence.  But to set up
in place of Divine Power those laws, which proceed from the
Divine Attributes of Knowledge and Speech and exist only as
knowledge, and to attribute creation to them; then to attach
name 'nature' to them, and to deem force, which is merely a
Manifestation of Dominical Power, to be an independent almighty
posessor of power is a thousand times more low-fallen ignorance
than the ignorance in the comparison.



IN SHORT:  THE IMAGINARY AND INSUBSTANTIAL THING THAT THE
NATURALISTS CALL NATURE, IF IT HAS AN EXTERNAL REALITY, CAN AT
THE VERY MOST BE A WORK OF ART, IT CANNOT BE THE ARTIST.  IT IS
AN EMBROIDERY, AND CANNOT BE THE EMBROIDERER.  IT IS A SET OF
DECREES, IT CANNOT BE THE ISSUER OF THE DECREES.  IT IS A BODY
OF THE LAWS OF CREATION, AND CANNOT BE THE LAWGIVER.  IT IS BUT
A CREATED SCREEN TO THE DIGNITY OF ALLAH (THE GOD), AND CANNOT
BE THE CREATOR.  IT IS PASSIVE AND CREATED, AND CANNOT BE A
CREATIVE MAKER.  IT IS A LAW, NOT A POWER, AND CANNOT POSSES
POWER.  IT IS THE RECIPIENT, AND CANNOT BE THE SOURCE.



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To be continued Allah Willing 

NARRATOR: Irfan Alan, A Servant of Islam