3rd Stopping Place 1st Truth Openerhood

THE FIRST TRUTH: the Truth of Opening

That is, the opening up from a single simple substance of innumerable varied and separate forms, together, everywhere, in a single instant and by a single deed, through the manifestation of the Name of Opener.Yes, in the same way that Allah's creative power has opened up innumerable beings like flowers in the garden of the cosmos, and endowed each with an orderly form and distinct identity, through the manifestation of the Name of Opener, so too, although in more miraculous fashion, he has given to the four hundred thousand species of animate beings in the garden of the earth each its symmetrical, adorned and distinct form.

He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation in three darknesses. That is Allah, your Sustainer. His is the sovereignty; there is no god other than He. Where, then, will you turn? {[*]: Qur'an, 39:6.} Nought is hidden from Allah, neither on earth nor in the heavens. He it is Who forms you in the wombs as He wills; there is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise. {[*]: Qur'an, 3:5-6.} As these two verses indicate, the strongest proof of Divine unity and the most remarkable miracle of Divine Power is Allah's opening up of forms. Because the opening of forms is repeatedly established and expounded in different ways elsewhere in the Risale-i Nur, and particularly in the Sixth and Seventh Degrees of the First Chapter of the Second Station of this treatise, we refer the discussion of this matter to those places and restrict ourselves here to the following:

يَخْلُقُكُمْ ف۪ى بُطُونِ اُمَّهَاتِكُمْ خَلْقًا مِنْ بَعْدِ خَلْقٍ ف۪ى ظُلُمَاتٍ ثَلَاثٍ ذٰلِكُمُ اللّٰهُ رَبُّكُمْ لَهُ الْمُلْكُ لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا هُوَ فَاَنّٰى تُصْرَفُونَ ٭ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَا يَخْفٰى عَلَيْهِ شَيْءٌ فِى الْاَرْضِ وَلَا فِى السَّمَٓاءِ ٭ هُوَ الَّذ۪ى يُصَوِّرُكُمْ فِى الْاَرْحَامِ كَيْفَ يَشَٓاءُ لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا هُوَ الْعَز۪يزُ الْحَك۪يمُ

According to the testimony of botany and biology, based on profound research, there is in the opening and unfolding of forms, such comprehensiveness and artistry that other than a Single and Unique One, One Absolutely Powerful, able to see and do all things in all things, no one could undertake this comprehensive and all-embracing deed. For this deed of the unfolding of forms demands a wisdom, an attention and a comprehensiveness that are present at all times and are contained within an infinite power. This power, in turn, can be found only in that Unique Being Who administers the whole cosmos.

As is decreed in the above-quoted verses, Allah's attribute of 'opening' expressed in the opening and creation of the forms of men from their mother's wombs, within three darknesses, separately, with equilibrium, distinctness, and order, without any error, confusion, or mistake; this truth of the unfolding of the forms of all men and animals, all over the earth, with the same power, the same wisdom and the same artistry, is a most powerful proof of Allah's unity. For to comprehend and embrace all things is itself a form of unity that leaves no room for the assignation of partners to Allah. Just as the nineteen Truths of the First Chapter bearing witness to the necessary existence of Allah also attest the existence of the Creator through their own existence, so too they bear witness to His unity through their comprehensiveness. Our traveller then saw the following Second Truth in the Third Stopping-Place: