The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 109
Allāh the Exalted 109 and characteristics by Divine Power through the manifestations of Rububiyyat, took on the character of created objects. This is one of the mysteries of the attribute of creation which cannot be easily understood through reasoning. For the average person it is enough to realize that whatever God Almighty determines to create comes into being and that everything is His creation and has proceeded from His Power. . But this mystery of creation becomes plain to the men of understanding after their disciplinary exercises, through visions, and they seem to realize that all souls and bodies are words of God which, through perfect Divine wisdom, have been clothed as created objects. But the basic principle to be adhered to is the factor that is common to visions and reason, that is to say, that God is the Creator of everything and that souls and bodies could not come into being without Him. The phraseology of the Holy. Qur'an in this context is multifaceted but that which the. Holy Qur'an lays down conclusively and with certainty is that everything has come into being through God Almighty and nothing has come into being without Him, or on its own. This is enough for the elementary stage. . Thereafter, to those who voyage through the different stages of understanding, the mystery would be disclosed after their striving, as Allāh the Exalted has said: وَالَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا فِينَا لَنَهْدِيَنَّهُمْ سُبُلَنَا 70 [Surmah Chashm Āryā, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 2, pp. 173-175, footnote]. Here it is necessary to explain that when God, Who is the. Cause of causes and to Whose Being all beings are re70 'And as for those who strive in Our path, We will surely guide them in Our ways. '-al-'Ankabūt, 29:70 [Publisher]