Dear Readers,
I stated in the first
chapter of this article that the attributes of Allah, which are related to His
providence in Material and Spiritual World (which means the things He created),
are called "Actional
Attributes". Of course we are competent on the works of Allah only in
Material World which is a visible and can be perceived by our five-sense. He
notifies His providences in the Spiritual World to the human beings He chooses.
The Creator has various works, actions and providences in the worlds. Most of
them are represented within the beautiful names of Allah and stated as Asma ul Husna. Four of the actional
attributes that we witness appearing every day are Takhliq (Creating), Ihya
(Resurrecting and giving life), Imate
(Killing) and Tarziq (Blessing His
creatures with means of subsistence, in forms of feeding and meeting the
needs).
# Takhliq (Creating):
It means the creation of
every living and non-living things by Allah out of nothing and equipped with
their primary components and qualities. This attribute is unique to Allah.
Nothing else but Allah has such power or ability. Assuming that other creatures
have such power means having insufficient knowledge about Allah. It means
blasphemy.
"Allah is the Creator of all things." (Zumar, 62)
"Say, He will give them life Who created
them for the first time! For He fully knows all!" (Ya-Sin, 79)
"The Originator of the heavens and the
earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: Be!, and it is.” (Baqarah, 117)
The word "to
create" in English is used for everything meaning producing something new.
It is, of course, not true. Creation doesn't mean to form a new and different
thing out of created elements but out of nothing complete with its primary
components and qualities.
Once there was nothing.
Only Allah (swt) existed.
"He is the First and the Last, the
Evident and the Hidden: and He has full knowledge of all things.” (Hadid, 3)
"There was Allah
and nothing else before Him" (Buharî,
Tirmizî)
Allah (swt) created
everything in the universe within certain measurements, forms and qualities
without having any examples beforehand, organized and programmed them
determining the changes that will occur within their characters and qualities
during all times. He creates the programmed events and subjects related to
these events when the time is right. In other words, providence (act of God)
takes place. He creates many phenomena through the human whom He declares His caliph
and the patron of the earth.
"Creation"
means creation of something out of nothing whilst "inshaa" (build)
refers to producing new and different things out of the created things, which
is also a actional attribute of Allah.
"That has created pairs in all things, and has made for you ships
and cattle on which ye ride,"
(Zukhruf, 12)
"It is He Who produceth gardens, with trellises and without" (An'aam, 141)
Through the intelligent
and skillful people whom He gifted with extraordinary talents on earth, Allah,
today, builds mega structures, dams, airplanes of tones of weight flying in the
sky, creates communication networks and even new types of living creatures
through the genetic secrets He taught to people. Even though He has a ritual of
not breaking the divine order but forming everything based on certain reasons
within this order, He can create them without any reason if He wants. Nobody
can interfere His providences in the divine order that He created and
organized.
# Ihya and Imate
(Giving life and Killing):
Allah resurrects the dead things as He kills the living things.
"That it is He Who granteth Death and Life;" (Najm, 44)
"And Allah sends down rain from the skies, and gives therewith life
to the earth after its death: verily in this is a Sign for those who
listen." (Nahl, 65)
"And verily, it is We Who give life, and Who give death: it is We
Who remain inheritors (after all else passes away)." (Hijr, 23)
Allah associated the
occurrence of many works and events to certain occasions, means and reasons. He
creates them without any reason or means if He wishes. As a matter of fact,
many people have witnessed such events throughout the history. However,
creating with reasons is His character. He established His order in the
universe on a determinism base. Therefore, the reasons mustn't be idolized and
it must never be forgotten that the real creator of the things that take place
with some reasons and occasions is Allah. Allah creates the human beings and
their works.
"But Allah has created you and your handwork!" (Saffat, 96)
"It is not ye who slew them; it was Allah. When thou threwest (a
handful of dust), it was not thy act, but Allah's." (Anfal, 17)
# Tarziq (Providing
sustenance):
Allah provides
livelihood to all of the living things He created gives them the necessary
energy they need to survive and meets all their needs.
"Say: Who is it that sustains you (in life) from the sky and from
the earth?" (Yunus, 31)
“Say: Shall I take for my protector any other than Allah, the Maker of
the heavens and the earth? And He it is that feedeth but is not fed.” (An'aam, 14)
Allah created Sun as an
energy source for earth. Solar energy is transformed to chemical energy by
plants contain chlorophyll, bryophytes and algae in the ecosystem through
photosynthesis. Then this energy passes to herbivores that eat these plants and
to the carnivore that eat them. Soil worms, fungi and bacteria make use of this
energy with the death of carnivore. Therefore, the energy becomes a source of
life for hundreds of living things without loss by passing one from the other.
Within this energy chain
Allah distributes the means of subsistence as He wishes within certain
measurements.
"Allah enlarges the sustenance (which He gives) to whichever of His
servants He pleases." (Ankabut, 62)
Livelihood comes from
Allah. However, as many phenomenon in the universe, earning livelihood is also
based on some reasons.
Dear Readers,
The universe is full of
eternal appearance of actional attributes of Almighty Allah. A human cannot see
his Rabb (Lord). However, he is always aware of the reflection of His actional
attributes on the creatures. The whole point is being able to take lessons from
events. This is possible with belief. This is the reason why I have
continuously been emphasizing the "belief" since my first article
"Correct Understanding the Human".
Belief is the start of knowing Allah (Marifetullah). As a person is always
consumed with his mean desires, there will be no place left in his heart for
anything else but the idea of making these wishes come true, unless he truly
believes. That person will always be obsessed with these desires. Therefore, he
will never learn lessons. A person’s viewpoint will completely change only when
he frees his heart from sensual desires under the guidance of a master by
remembering Allah and showing interest in the things that will remind him
Allah. Only then he will start seeing the appearance of Divine grace in the
universe clearly. Briefly, he will start to examine everything from a "Haq" (divine truth) point of view.
This point of view of the person recovering from his selfishness is also called
"Farasat" (foresight, perception)
which is a sign of matureness. It was ordered in the Hadith:
"Fear the foresight of the
believer for he sees with the light of Allah" (Tirmizî)
Once, I listened to a
Hodja, a competent of Islamic tasawwuf, talking on a radio show about a
reference made to "zikr"
(remembering Allah) in Qur’an approximately 200 times and ordered approximately
80 times. What is the reason that our Rabb (Lord) wants us to remember Him
continuously? Does He need to be remembered by human beings all the time? Of
course not! Absolutely not... Never... We are the ones who need this. The
Creator wants to complete His blessings for us by ordering us to remember Him,
saving us from our own aggression and setting us free. He wants us to be the
ones who benefit more from His blessings.
"Allah doth not wish to place you in a difficulty, but to make you
clean, and to complete his favor to you, that ye may be grateful." (Maida, 6)
"Verily Allah is full of Grace and Bounty to men: yet most men give
no thanks." (Mu'min, 61)
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