The Holy War — Page 215
Proceedings—Debate 2 June 1893 215 1 [Part] 12— ِهْيَلِا ُعَجْرُي ُرْمَاْلا ٗهُّلُك [Meaning,] And it is indeed to God Almighty that every affair returns. However, to derive from this the conclusion that this proves that man is compelled thereby is a misunderstanding. As it stands, God Almighty has also stated in the Holy Quran that I send down rain and create thunder and lightning, and grow crops , but to conclude from this that God Almighty denies the presence of natural causes that bring about rain and create thunder and lightning is completely senseless, because these stages are themselves specifically mentioned to point out that they come into being through natural causes. So in truth, the rea- son for God Almighty to make such statements like rains happen by My command and that it is by My command that crops grow and thunder and lightning and fruits are created etc. etc. , as well as every matter is in My power and is done with My command —all this is affirmed not to prove that the system of this world is absolutely and directly enforced; rather, it is to articulate His greatness and to point to Him being the Cause of all causes and the Provider of the means for all causes, because the true object of the teachings of the Holy Quran is to spread the pure Unity of God in the world and to obliterate every form of idolatry that was spreading and because at the time when the Holy Quran was revealed, such an array of divergent forms of idolatrous beliefs were spreading throughout the Arabian peninsula that some attributed rains to stars and some held—like the atheists—that the cause of com- ing into being of all things was limited to simply physical means. And some believing in two gods attributed their difficult decree and des- tiny to be from Ahriman. This is why it was obligatory upon the Book of God Almighty—for which purpose it was revealed—that it should eradicate all such ideas and make manifest that the true Cause of all causes and the Provider of the means for all causes is indeed God. And there were also some who, believing that matter and souls were eternal, 1. S u rah H u d, 11:124 [Publisher]