2nd Stopping Place 1st Truth Grandeur And Sublimity

THE FIRST TRUTH: that of Grandeur and Sublimity.

Since this truth is explained with different proofs in the Second Station of the Second Ray and various other places in the Risale-i Nur, we restrict ourselves here to the following:

The Being that creates and then administers at a single time and in a single fashion the stars that are thousands of years distant from each other; that creates at a single time and in a single form the countless members of the same species of flower, distributed over the east and the west, the north and south of the globe; that administers, nurtures, quickens, distinguishes and adorns more than two hundred thousand different types of plant and species of animal in five or six weeks, with the utmost regularity and equilibrium, without any confusion, defect or error, in order to provide every spring on the face of the earth more than a hundred thousand specimens of the supreme resurrection, and thus prove before man's eyes a remarkable event, now belonging to the past and the realm of the Unseen, namely the creation of the heavens and the earth in six days, as indicated in the verse,

He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six days; {[*]: Qur'an, 57:4.} the Being that causes the earth to revolve, as evidenced in the verse,

He merges night with day, and day with night, {[*]: Qur'an, 3:27.} and turns the night into the page on which the events of the day are written - this same Being knows and administers according to His own will, all at the same time, the most secret and obscure thoughts that occur to men's hearts. Since each of the aforementioned acts is in reality one act, it follows that their Glorious Doer is a Unique and Powerful Being, enjoying such grandeur and sublimity that nowhere, in nothing, in no way, does it leave the slightest possibility for the acceptance of partnership; on the contrary, it uproots all such possibility.

Since such sublime power and grandeur exist and since that grandeur is at the very apex of perfection and comprehends everything, it is certainly in no way possible to permit or allow any attribution of partners to that Unique and Powerful Being, for so doing would ascribe impotence or need to that power, fault to that grandeur, defect to that perfection, and impose restriction on that comprehensiveness. No sound intellect could deem this possible.

The assignment of partners to Allah, is then by virtue of the offence it causes to Allah's Grandeur, the dignity of his Glory and His Sublimity, so grave a crime that the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition decrees with an earnest threat,

Allah does not pardon the assignment to Him of a partner; He pardons whatever is lesser than that. {[*]: Qur'an, 4:48.}

THE SECOND TRUTH:

هُوَ الَّذ۪ى خَلَقَ السَّمٰوَاتِ وَالْاَرْضَ ف۪ى سِتَّةِ اَيَّامٍ

The absoluteness, the comprehensiveness, and appearance in infinite form of the dominical deeds seen at work in the cosmos.

It is only Allah's wisdom and will that limits and restricts those deeds, as well as the inherent capacities of the objects and places in which they manifest themselves. Stray chance, dumb nature, blind force, unconscious causality and the elements that without restriction are scattered in every direction - none of these can have any part in the most balanced, wise perspicacious, life-giving, orderly and firm deeds of the Creator. They are used, rather, by the command, will, and power of the Glorious Doer as an apparent veil to conceal His power.

يُولِجُ الَّيْلَ فِى النَّهَارِ وَ يُولِجُ النَّهَارَ فِى الَّيْلِ

Three out of innumerable examples:

We will set forth three from among the numerous subtle points that relate to the three deeds indicated in three continuous verses in Sura al-Nahl.