Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 26
? 19 that by mixing earth with water and pouring the mixture in moulds, one could make mudbricks, and by burning the same in the fire-kiln, one could make clay-bricks, he would be able so to make bricks. Similarly, if one could know how super-soil was made, one would be able to make it. In short, the art of creation is dependent on knowledge. When a man attains perfect knowledge of the composition and constitution of a thing, he can make it. If one knows how to make a watch, he can manufacture one. One who attains perfect knowledge of the functions of organs, he would become a doctor. Briefly speaking, the perfect knowledge of a thing equips with the power of perfect creation. Furthermore, when a person has perfect knowledge, it means, he is also capable of perfect creation and perfect design and that he dispenses with the need of another designer. stands for the attribute, In the abbreviation, the letter the Sufficer; Allah has hinted thereby that He is Sufficient as much for the creation of men as for their management and equally for planning for their existence, without there being an occasion, or cause or need of a vicarious atonement, or a son or holy ghost, as help. It can be argued here that notwithstanding our belief that God is the Sufficer, we believe in the angels and in the physical universe, in wind and lightning and matter. The answer is that we accord these things a secondary position