Direct Knowledge Of Allah 19th Degree 2nd Truth Divine Speech

Divine discourse, which proceeds from the attribute of Speech.

Were the sea to become ink for the words of my Sustainer... {[*]: Qur'an, 18:109.} According to the inner sense of this verse, Divine discourse is infinite. The clearest sign demonstrating the existence of a being is his speech. This truth, therefore, constitutes an infinite testimony to the existence and unity of the Pre-Eternal Speaker. Since two powerful evidences of this truth are revelation and inspiration, set forth in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Degrees of this treatise; another broad proof is provided by sacred and heavenly Books, as indicated in the Tenth Degree; and a further most brilliant and comprehensive proof is furnished by the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition, as discussed in the Seventeenth Degree - for all these reasons we refer our readers to those Degrees for the exposition and affirmation of this truth. Enough for us and for our traveller, who was unable to proceed beyond this point, are the lights and mysteries contained in the sublime verse that proclaims this truth in miraculous fashion and adds it own testimony to all of the preceding ones:

لَوْ كَانَ الْبَحْرُ مِدَادًا لِكَلِمَاتِ رَبّ۪ى

Allah bears witness that there is no god but He, as do the angels and the possessors of knowledge; steadfast in equity; there is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise! {[*]: Qur'an, 3:18.} In allusion to the core of the lesson learned by our traveller at this sacred Station, we said, in the Nineteenth Degree of the First Station:

There is no god but Allah, the Necessary Existent, the One, the Unique; His are the Beautiful Names, His are the Supreme Attributes, and His is the Most Sublime Similitude. To His Necessary Existence in Unity points the necessarily existent Essence, with the consensus of all its sacred and comprehensive attributes and all of its Beautiful Names, manifested according to the consensus of His dominant qualities and deeds. By the testimony of the sublimity of the truth of the self-revelation of Divinity in the manifestation of dominicality, in the permanence of imperious activity through the act of bringing into being, creating, making and originating, in will and in power; and through the act of determining, forming and regulating, in choice and in wisdom; through the act of expending, preserving, ordering, administering, and nurturing in purposiveness and mercy, in complete order and equilibrium; as too by the testimony of the sublimity of the comprehensiveness of the truth of the mysteries of the verse: Allah bears witness that there is no god but He, as do the angels and the possessors of knowledge; steadfast in equity; there is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise!

شَهِدَ اللّٰهُ اَنَّهُ لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا هُوَ وَالْمَلٰئِكَةُ وَ اُولُوا الْعِلْمِ قَٓائِمًا بِالْقِسْطِ لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا هُوَ الْعَز۪يزُ الْحَك۪يمُ

لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللّٰهُ الْوَاجِبُ الْوُجُودِ الْوَاحِدُ الْاَحَدُ لَهُ الْاَسْمَٓاءُ الْحُسْنٰى وَ لَهُ الصِّفَاتُ الْعُلْيَا وَ لَهُ الْمَثَلُ الْاَعْلٰى اَلَّذ۪ى دَلَّ عَلٰى وُجُوبِ وُجُودِهِ ف۪ى وَحْدَتِهِ اَلذَّاتُ الْوَاجِبُ الْوُجُودِ بِاِجْمَاعِ جَم۪يعِ صِفَاتِهِ الْقُدْسِيَّةِ الْمُح۪يطَةِ وَ جَم۪يعِ اَسْمَٓائِهِ الْحُسْنٰى اَلْمُتَجَلِّيَّةِ بِاِتِّفَاقِ جَم۪يعِ شُؤُنَاتِهِ وَ اَفْعَالِهِ الْمُتَصَرِّفَةِ بِشَهَادَةِ عَظَمَةِ حَق۪يقَةِ تَبَارُزِ الْاُلُوهِيَّةِ ف۪ى تَظَاهُرِ الرُّبُوبِيَّةِ ف۪ى دَوَامِ الْفَعَّالِيَّةِ الْمُسْتَوْلِيَةِ بِفِعْلِ الْا۪يجَادِ وَ الْخَلْقِ وَ الصُّنْعِ وَ الْاِبْدَاعِ بِاِرَادَةٍ وَ قُدْرَةٍ وَ بِفِعْلِ التَّقْد۪يرِ وَ التَّصْو۪يرِ وَ التَّدْب۪يرِ وَ التَّدْو۪يرِ بِاِخْتِيَارٍ وَ حِكْمَةٍ وَ بِفِعْلِ التَّصْر۪يفِ وَ التَّنْظ۪يمِ وَ الْمُحَافَظَةِ وَ الْاِدَارَةِ وَ الْاِعَاشَةِ بِقَصْدٍ وَ رَحْمَةٍ وَ بِكَمَالِ الْاِنْتِظَامِ وَ الْمُوَازَنَةِ وَ بِشَهَادَةِ عَظَمَةِ اِحَاطَةِ حَق۪يقَةِ اَسْرَارِ - شَهِدَ اللّٰهُ اَنَّهُ لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا هُوَ وَ الْمَلٰئِكَةُ وَ اُولُوا الْعِلْمِ قَائِمًا بِالْقِسْطِ لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا هُوَ الْعَز۪يزُ الْحَك۪يمُ NOTE

Each of the truths that offer their testimony in the Nineteen Degrees of the First Chapter of the Second Station above not only indicate Necessary Existence through existence and presence, but also through their comprehensiveness, attest Allah's unity and oneness. But since they prove existence most clearly and explicitly, we regarded them first as proofs of Necessary Existence.

As for the Second Chapter of the Second Station, the truths in question will be designated instead as proofs of Divine unity, insofar as they explicitly prove unity, and implicitly necessity. In reality, each proves the other; unity proves necessity, and necessity proves unity. In order to indicate the difference, we said repeatedly in the First Chapter, "By the testimony of the sublimity of the comprehensiveness of the truth of....," while in the Second Chapter we shall recurrently say, "By the witnessing of the sublimity of the comprehensiveness of the truth of...," thus indicating the evident visibility of Divine unity. I had the intention of explaining the degrees of the Second Chapter, just as I did in the First Chapter, but on account of various obstacles I am compelled to be summary and concise. I leave it to other parts of the Risale-i Nur to expound these matters as they deserve to be expounded.