THE THIRD FACT WHICH NECESSITATES DIVINE UNITY

 

In addition to the fact that there is extraordinary artistry in the creation of things, and particularly in living beings, there is also the fact that a seed is a small sample of the fruit, containing its meaning and its context in a compact and concise form. Indeed, it is like a small specimen or map of the fruit and the fruit fulfills the same role for a tree; a tree is the same for the species, and the species acts in this way for the universe. Each of these is a comprehensive point or a droplet distilled from the entire universe with principles of Knowledge and scales of Wisdom, and it possesses the capacity of being the origin of the whole of creation. Therefore, the One Who has created any of them must surely have created the entire universe. Certainly, the One Who creates the seed of a melon is self-evidently the same One Who created the melon: it is impossible that it could be any other than He.

We see that all the atoms in our blood perform such a variety of duties that they are not inferior to the stars. All the red and white corpuscles in the blood work to such a degree of consciousness to protect and feed the body that they are more efficient than the most highly-trained and experienced soldiers or guardsmen. All the cells of the body are favored with such orderly processes, incomings and outgoings that their administration is more perfect than the best-run institution or palace. All plants and animals have such a seal on their faces and such mechanisms in their beings that only the One Who has created all of them could have placed these seals and mechanisms in them. And all the species of living beings have spread over the face of the earth in such an orderly fashion and intermingled with one another in such a way that anyone who is unable to simultaneously create, direct, and raise all these species, unable to weave that most ornate, artistic, living textile with its warp and weft of hundreds of thousands of plant and animal species to cover the face of the earth—one who is unable to do all of these things would not be able to create or direct a single one of these beings. If similar analogies are made for other features of existence, it will be understood that with respect to both the creation and Lordship—raising, managing, nurturing, and sustaining—the universe is a whole that does not admit of division.

This third fact which necessitates Divine Unity has been demonstrated in many of the treatises of The Lamp of Light, and particularly in The First Station of The Thirty-second Word. It has been demonstrated so clearly and convincingly that, just as reflections of the sun in transparent things point to the one and only sun, a proof of Divine Unity is reflected and represented in the mirror of every individual entity. These explanations are sufficient and now we cut this long story short.

Said Nursi