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All a h the Exalted 7 ties in the elements and the inventors are not able to cre- ate those powers and capacities. Thus unless God is accepted as the inventor of all the capacities and powers of the particles of the universe and of the souls His God- head is not established. In that case, He would rank only as a builder or a carpenter or a smith or a potter and no more. This is obvious and irrefutable. [Nas i m-e-Da‘wat, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, Vol. 19, pp. 383-384] We bear witness with our full faith and complete under- standing that the contention of the A ry a Sam a jists that souls and particles with all their capacities are eternal and self-existing and uncreated is false. This idea is disrup- tive of the relationship between God and His creatures. It is a new and repulsive doctrine which has been put forth by Pandit Dy a nand. We are not aware to what degree this doctrine is drawn from the Ved a s. What we contend is that this principle which has been expounded by the A ry a Sam a jists is not acceptable to sane reason after full un- derstanding and reflection and pondering. The principle of San a tan Dharam lies in exact contrast. Although it has been disfigured by the exaggerations of Ved a nta and the Ved a ntists, and is exposed to a number of objections, nevertheless it does have a spark of truth in it. If their doctrine is simplified it amounts only to this that everything has been created by Parmeshwar. In such case, all doubts are removed and one has to confess that according to the principles of San a tan Dharam the doc- trine of the Ved a s also is that all souls and particles of bodies and their powers and qualities are from God. [Nas i m-e-Da‘wat, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, Vol. 19, p. 387] The Holy Qur’ a n has taught us that man together with his soul and all his capacities and every particle of his body,