Fountain of Christianity — Page 35
35 attributed to His Omnipotence, His Oneness, His Knowl- edge, and His other excellences and attributes. If we consider Him—Who controls every particle and com- mands all the legions of souls and the forces of heaven and earth—to be imperfect in His power and wisdom, the physical and spiritual worlds would at once come to a stand still. If, God forbid, we were to believe that all par- ticles and their powers, and all the souls and their faculties have come into being on their own, it would follow that the Knowledge, Oneness and Omnipotence of God are all imperfect. If particles and souls are not His creation, there is no reason why we should believe that God has knowl- edge of all that is hidden in them. If there is no conclusive proof of His Omniscience, and the proof is, in fact, to the contrary, we will have to conclude that, like us, God is also unaware of the true nature of things, and that His knowledge does not encompass their innermost secrets. For example, if we have prepared a medicine with our own hand, or if a syrup or a tablet or an extract has been made with our own prescription and before our very eyes, we will have complete knowledge of that medicine, and we will know all its ingredients as well as the proportion in which they have been added, and we will also know the purpose for which it has been made. But if we have an ex- tract or potion or pill which is unknown to us and whose ingredients we cannot separate, we would surely know nothing about it. In the same way, if we believe God to be the Creator of all particles and souls, we will also have to accept that He possesses all knowledge about them and