From: irfan@maxwell.ece.wisc.edu (Irfan Alan)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,alt.religion.all-worlds
Subject: EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCES OF ALLAH (THE GOD), PART-4
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:45:26 GMT
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Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Electrical & Computer Engineering

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 4                 

AUZUBILLAHIMINASSAYTANIRRACIYM BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIYM

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

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



THE THIRD WAY

"Nature necessitates it; nature makes it." This statement
contains many impossibilities.  We shall mention three of them
by way of examples.



First  Impossibility:

If the art and creativity, which are dicerning and wise, to be
seen in beings and particularly in animate beings are not
attributed to the pen of Divine Determining and Power of the
Pre-Eternal Sun, and instead are attributed to nature and force,
which are blind, deaf and unthinking, it becomes necessary that
nature should have present in everything machines and
printinging power and wisdom enough to create and administer the
universe.  The reason for this is as follows:

The sun's manifestations and reflections appear in all small
fragments of glass and droplets on the face of the earth.  If
those miniature,reflected  imaginary suns are not ascribed to
the sun in the sky, it becomes necessary to accept the external
existence of an actual sun in every tiny fragment of glass
smaller than a match head, which possesses the sun's qualities
and which, though small in size, bears profound meaning; and
therefore to accept actual suns to the number of pieces of glass.

In exactly the same way, if beings and animate creatures are not
attributed directly to the manifestation of the Pre-Eternal
Sun's Names, it becomes necessary to accept that in each being,
and especially animate beings, there lies a nature, a force, or
quite simply a god that will sustain an infinite power and will,
and knowledge and wisdom.  Such an idea is the most absurd and
supersitious of all the impossibilities in the universe.  It
demonstrates that a man who attributes the art of the Creator of
 the universe to imaginary, insignificant, unconcious nature is
without a doubt less concious of the truth than an animal.



SECOND IMPOSSIBILITy:

If beings, which are most well-ordered and well-measured, wise
and artistically fashioned, are not ascribed to One Who is
Infinitely Powerful and Wise and instead are attributed to
nature, it becomes necessary for there to be present in every
bit of soil as many factories and printing-presses as there are
in Europe so that each bit of soil can be the means for the
growth and formation of innumerable flowers and fruits, of which
it is the place of origin and workshop.  The seeds of flowers
are sown in turn in a bowl of soil, which performs the duty of a
flower-pot for them.  An ability is apparent in the bowl of soil
that will give shapes and forms which differ greatly from one
another to all the flowers sown in it.  If that ability is not
attributed to the All-Glorious and All-Powerful One, such a
situation could not occur without there being in the bowlful of
soil immaterial, different and natural machines for each flower.

This is because the matter of which seeds, like sperm and eggs
for example, consist is the same.  That is, they consist of an
orderless, formless, paste-like mixture of oxygen, hydrogen,
carbon and nitrogen.  Together with this, since air, water, heat
and light, also, are each simple, unconcious and flow against
everything in floods, the fact that the all-different forms of
those flowers emerge from the soil in a most well-ordered and
artistic fashion self-evidently and necessarily requires that
there are present in the soil in the bowl immaterial, miniature
printing-presses and factories to the number of presses and
factories in Europe so that they could weave this great number
of living fabrics and thousands of all-different embroidered
textiles.

Thus, you can see how far the unbeliving thought of the
naturalist has deviated from the realm of reason.  And although
brainless pretenders who imagine nature to be creator claim to
be "men of scince and reason", see just how distant from reason
and science is their thought so that they have taken a
superposition that is in no way possible, that is impossible, as
a way for themselves.   See this and laugh at them.

IF YOU ASK: If such extraordinary impossibilities and
insurmountable difficulties occur when beings are attributed to
nature, how are those difficulties removed  when they are
attributed to the Single and Eternally Besought One?  And how is
the difficult impossibility transformed into that easy necessity?

	WE WOULD REPLY: We saw in the First Impossibility that the
manifestation of the sun's reflection displays its radiance and
effect through miniature imaginary suns with complete ease and
lack of trouble in everything from the minutest inanimate
particle to the surface of the vastest ocean.  If each
particle's relationship with the sun is severed, it then becomes
necessary to accept that the external existence of an actual sun
could subsist, with a difficulty at the level of impossibility,
in each of those minute particles.

	Similarly, if each being is ascribed directly to the Single and
Eternally Besought One, everything necessary for each being can
be conveyed to it through a connection and manifestation with an
ease and facility that is at the level of necessity.  If  that
connection is severed and each being reverts from its position
as an official to being without duties, and is left to nature
and its own devices, it then becomes necessary to suppose that,
with a hundred thousand difficulties and obstacles  that reach
the degree of  impossiblity, blind nature posseses within it a
power  and wisdom with which to create the wonderful machine of
the being of an animate being like a fly, which is a tiny index
of the universe.  This is impossible not just once but thousands
of times over. 

	In Short: Just as it is impossible and precluded for the
Necessarily Existent One to have any partner or the like in
respect of His Essence, so too is the interference of others in
His Dominicality and in His Creation of beings impossible and
precluded.

	As for the difficulties involved in the Second Impossility, as
is proved in many parts of the Risale-i Nur, if all things are
attributed to the Single One of Unity, all things become as easy
and trouble-free as a single thing.  Whereas if they are
attributed to causes and nature, a single thing becomes as
difficult as all things.  This has been demonstrated with
numerous, decisive proofs and a summary of one them is as
follows.

	If a man is connected to a king thorough being a soldier or an
official, by reason of the strength of that connection, he may
perform duties far exceeding his own individual strength.  He
may, on occasion, capture another king, even, in the name of his
own king.  For he himself does not carry the equipment and
sources of strength necesssary to carry out the duties and work
he performs, nor is he compelled to do so.  By reason of the
connection, the king's treasuries, and the army, which behind
him and is his point of support, carry his equipment and sources
of strength.  That is to say, the duties he performs may be as
grand as the business of a king, and as tremendous as the
actions of an army.

	Indeed, through being an official, an ant destroyed Pharaoh's
palace.  Through that connection, a fly killed Nimrod off.  And
through that connection, the seed of a pine in the size of a
grain of wheat produces all the parts of a huge pine-tree. (1)

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Footnote: (1):  Indeed, when there is that connection, the seed
receives an order from Divine Determining and displays those
wonderfull duties.  Should that connection be severed, the
creation of the seed would require more equipment, power and art
than the creation of the migthy pine-tree.  For it would be
necessary for the pine-tree out there on the mountain, which is
the work of Divine Power, to be physically present together with
all limbs and parts in what  is only the potential tree within
the seed and is the work of Divine Determining .  For that
mighty tree's factory is seed.  The determined, potential tree
within it becomes manifest in the external world through Power,
and becomes a physical pine-tree.

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	Were that connection to be severed and the man discharged from
his duties as an official, he would be compelled to carry the
equipment and sources of strength necessary for his work on his
own back.  He would then only be able to perform duties in
accordance with the sources  of stregth and ammunition that he
was able to carry out his duties with the extreme ease of the
first situaton, it would be necessary to load on his back the
sources of an army's strength and the arsenals and munitions'
factories of a king.  Even clowns who  invent stories  and
superstitions to make people laugh would be ashamed at this
fanciful idea.

	In Short:  To attribute all beings to the Necessarily Existent
One is so easy as to be necessary.  While to attribute their
creation to nature is so difficult as to be impossible and
outside the realm of reason.

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To be continued Allah Willing 

NARRATOR: Irfan Alan, A Servant of Islam
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc