Elucidation of Objectives — Page 60
Tau di h-e-Mar a m 60 displeasure, whenever God chooses to move or wills to bring about a phenomenon, the move if absolute and categorical, becomes the sine qua non of the movement of all existents in the universe. If for some reason, the movement is partial, parts of the universe also start moving partially. The fact of the matter is that the relationship between God on the one hand and His creation and the myriads of worlds on the other, is like the relationship between body and soul. Just as all parts of the body are subservient to the behests of the soul and incline in the direction in which the soul tends to incline, the same relationship exists between God and His creatures. I do not say, like the author 62 of Fus u s, that 63 but I do venture to say: 64 The All-Wise God has disclosed this closely guarded secret to me that this universe and its complements are 62 Mu h iyudd i n Ibnul ‘Arab i. [Translator] 63 God created things and He is those things. [Translator] 64 God created things and He is like those things. This universe is like a palace paved with smooth slabs of glass, beneath which strong currents of water flow. He does what He wills. Defective eyes mistake these things for God. They think that the Sun, the moon, and the stars are independently effective and functional on their own, whereas none is truly independent and effective but God. [Translator]