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92 no way beyond. Blessed is he who understands this and escapes annihilation. The Holy Prophet saw is reported to have said: You can go on asking about everything as to who created it, but when you reach God, ask no more. A naïve person may think that he closed the door to independent research for his followers and prohib- ited them from asking this academic question to save them from doubts. But the Holy Prophet saw only meant what has been stated above; i. e. the question of being created can arise about everything except God; anyone raising that question about God proves his ignorance. The Holy Prophet saw did not close the door on knowl- edge but on ignorance. He did not block the way to research but forbade pursuing superstition. اللّھم صل ّ علیہ وسلّم ویا ایّھا الّذِین اٰمنوا صلّوا علیہ وسلّموا تسلیماً. [O Allah, bless Muhammad and prosper him; O ye who believe, you should also invoke blessings on him and salute him with the salutation of peace]. To summarise, this vast universe—with an extremely judi- cious organisation that appears to be operating, individually and collectively, in multitude of its distinctly shaped, ever-changing, non-self-existent and limited objects—bears witness to the fact that it is not by itself but has come into existence through the agency of the creative powers of a Higher Being and is sustained and maintained by the same Higher Being, who Himself is uncre- ated and is without a master. He is the last cause and to Him all else converges. I end this discussion on a very elegant poem by the Promised Messiah as :