The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 237
236 Ā'ĪNA-E-KAMĀLĀT-E-ISLĀM―DĀFI UL-WASĀWIS fact a memorial to the six days in which the earth and the heavens and what is between them was created. If anyone still does not accept this position and persists in denial, I would say that so far as I am concerned, I have given proof of six stages of creation of the larger universe', corresponding to the six stages of the development of the ‘miniature universe, and have also referred to the six working days which prevail throughout all the people of the world, and have also proved that all processes of God's creation are evolution- ary. Therefore, if this argument does not suffice in the of an objec- tor, it is incumbent upon him to give some proof in support of the view that God created the physical universe in a single instant, and not as a result of an evolutionary process. eyes Everyone knows that the same God exists who was before, and the same creative process exists as was beforehand and we clearly see that God completes the development of all creation in an evolutionary pro- cess-no one can say that God was strong before and therefore quick, but that now He is weak and slow. We would rather say that such is His law of nature since eternity that He creates all of His creation through stages. The events of the present tell us that the same development by stages was adopted in the ancient and beginning of times. It would be foolish on our part not to see a glimpse of the past in the mirror of the present. A glance at the present way of creation not only proves that God Almighty brings everything into perfection through stages, but also that there are six stages in the development of all creation. The wisdom of Allah has so ordained that the birth of every creation undergoes six stages, and comes to completion in six intervals. Look at any creation—the same six stages will be proven for it. In other words, it would be proven that the completion of all phys- ical bodies culminates in six stages. This is not limited to humans. You will find the same six stages in the physical completion of thousands of animals that dwell upon the earth. Another marvellous phenomenon is that these six stages are not limited to physical creation; rather, they are also found in the realm