THE FIRST TRUTH: Grandeur and Sublimity

 

 

Since this truth was explained with adequate proofs in The Second Station of The Second Ray and various other places in the Risale-i Nur, we will keep our discussion here brief:

The Being Who creates and then administers simultaneously and in the same single fashion the stars that are thousands of light years distant from each other; Who creates at the same single moment and in the same single form the countless members of the same species of flower, distributed over all four corners of the earth; Who, as though willing to provide on the face of the earth hundreds of thousands of examples of the supreme Resurrection every spring, and to prove before our eyes an extremely remarkable past, unseen event, namely the creation of the heavens and the earth in six “days,” as indicated in the verse, He it is Who has created the heavens and the earth in six days (57:4), brings into existence and adorns hundreds of thousands of different plant and animal species in five or six weeks, and manages, nurtures and distinguishes between them with the utmost order and harmony, and without any confusion, defect or error, even though they are all mingled with one another; the Being Who, as stated explicitly in the verse, He makes the night pass into the day, and He makes the day pass into the night (57:6), causes the earth to revolve, and produces and alternates the pages of the day and night, on which He inscribes daily events—this same Being knows and administers through His Will, all at the same time, the most secret and hidden thoughts which occur to our hearts. Since each of the acts mentioned is in reality a single, uniform act, it follows necessarily that their One and All-Powerful Possessor of Majesty has such Grandeur and Sublimity that nowhere, in nothing, in no way, does It allow the slightest possibility for there to be any partners with Him.

Since One of such Grandeur and sublimity of Power exists, and since that Grandeur is infinitely perfect and comprehensive, it is certainly in no way possible that they should allow any intervention or participation from another. For this would mean imputing impotence to that Power, fault to that Grandeur, defect to that Perfection, restriction to that Comprehensiveness and a limit to that Infinitude. No sound intellect could regard this to be possible.

Since it offends God’s Grandeur and the dignity of His Majesty and Sublimity, the association of partners with God is deemed such a crime that the miraculous Qur’an asserts most earnestly that Assuredly, God does not forgive that partners be associated with Him; less than that, He forgives to whomever He wills (4:48).

Said Nursi