The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 110
110. Essence of Islam-1 lated, makes a move towards the creation of anything, then if that move is on a full scale it occasions a move in all creation, but when it is a partial move, it occasions a move in some sections of the universe. The relationship of the whole of creation and of all the worlds to God, the. Lord of Honour and Glory, resembles the relationship which subsists between the soul and the body. As all the limbs of the body are subject to the designs of the soul and they all move in the direction in which the soul moves, the same relationship subsists between God Almighty and His creation. . Although I do not say like the author of Fuṣus about the. Ultimate Being that: yet I do say: 71 خلق الاشياء و هو عينها خلق الاشياء و هو كعينها - هذا العالم كصرح ممرّد من قواریر و ماء الطاقت العظمى يجرى تحتها و يفعل ما يريد يخيّل فى عيون قاصرة كانها هو يحسبون الشمس والقمر والنجوم موثراتِ بذاتها و لا موثر الا هو -72. The All-Wise has disclosed this mystery to me that the whole of this universe including all its sections is designed to carry out whatever is intended by the Cause of causes and is like the limbs which do not operate on their own, but are supplied with power all the time by the 71 He created things and that He is those very things. [Publisher] 72 He created all things and He is like those very things. This universe is like a great hall paved smooth with slabs of glass. A Great. Power flows underneath it and does whatever It wills. In the eyes of the short-sighted, everything appears as if it existed by itself. They imagine that the sun, the moon, and the stars exist on their own, but all existence belongs to Him. [Publisher]