The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 115
Allāh the Exalted 115 ties in the elements and the inventors are not able to create 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 Godhead 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. [Nasim-e-Da'wat, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 19, pp. 383-384]. We bear witness with our full faith and complete understanding that the contention of the Āryā Samājists that souls and particles with all their capacities are eternal and self-existing and uncreated is false. This idea is disruptive of the relationship between God and His creatures. It is a new and repulsive doctrine which has been put forth by Pandit Dyānand. We are not aware to what degree this doctrine is drawn from the Vedās. What we contend is that this principle which has been expounded by the Arya. Samājists is not acceptable to sane reason after full understanding and reflection and pondering. . The principle of Sanatan Dharam lies in exact contrast. . Although it has been disfigured by the exaggerations of. Vedānta and the Vedāntists, 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 Sanatan Dharam the doctrine of the Vedās also is that all souls and particles of bodies and their powers and qualities are from God. [Nasim-e-Da'wat, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 19, p. 387]. The Holy Qur'an has taught us that man together with his soul and all his capacities and every particle of his body,