The Twenty-ninth Flash
| The Twenty-ninth Flash | Yirmidokuzuncu Lem’a |
| … | بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ |
| Preface | İfade-i Meram |
| Thirteen years ago, my heart combined with my mind and urged me to the way of reflective thought which the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition commands with such verses as, That you may consider.(2:219; 2:266) * Perchance they may reflect.(7:176, etc.) * Do they not reflect in their own minds, did God create the heavens and the earth?(30:8) * There are signs for those who consider.(13:3, etc.) | Onüç seneden beri kalbim, aklım ile imtizaç edip Kur’an-ı Mu’ciz-ül Beyan’ın لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَفَكَّرُونَ * لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ * اَوَلَمْ يَتَفَكَّرُوا فِى اَنْفُسِهِمْ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَ اْلاَرْضَ * َلاۤيَاتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ gibi âyetler ile emrettiği tefekkür mesleğine teşvik ettiği |
| The Hadith the meaning of which is “An hour’s reflective thought is better than a year’s [supererogatory] worship” | ve تَفَكُّرُ سَاعَةٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عِبَادَةِ سَنَةٍ hadîs-i şerifi |
| al-‘Ajluni, Kashf al-Khafa’, i, 143; al-Ghazali, Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din, iv, 409 (Kitab al-Tafakkur); al-Haythami, Majma‘ al-Zawa’id, i, 78. | |
| states that on occasion an hour’s reflection may be equivalent to a year’s worship. It also offers powerful encouragement for reflective thought. | bazan bir saat tefekkür bir sene ibadet hükmünde olduğunu beyan edip, tefekküre azîm teşvikat yaptığı cihetle, |
| For myself, in order to preserve the extensive lights and lengthy truths which appeared to my mind and heart during the thirteen years I have followed this way, | ben de bu onüç seneden beri meslek-i tefekkürde akıl ve kalbime tezahür eden büyük nurları ve uzun hakikatları kendime muhafaza etmek için |
| I recorded a number of phrases by way of indications, not to point out those lights but to indicate their existence, facilitate reflection, and preserve the order. | işarat nev’inden bazı kelimatı o envâra delalet etmek için değil, belki vücudlarına işaret ve tefekkürü teshil ve intizamı muhafaza için vaz’ettim. |
| I used to recite the phrases to myself verbally in varying Arabic terms when I embarked on the reflection. | Gayet muhtelif Arabî ibarelerle kendi kendime o tefekkürde gittiğim zaman o kelimatı lisanen zikrediyordum. |
| Although repeated thousands of times over this long period, I never became wearied, nor did the pleasure they afforded diminish, nor the spirit’s need of them lessen. | Bu uzun zamanda ve binler defa tekrarında ne bana usanç geliyordu ve ne de verdiği zevk noksanlaşıyordu ve ne de onlara ihtiyac-ı ruhî zâil oluyordu. |
| For since the reflection all consisted of flashes from Qur’anic verses, the qualities of not causing weariness and preserving their sweetness, which are qualities of the verses, were represented in the mirror of that reflective thought. | Çünki bütün o tefekkürat, âyât-ı Kur’aniyenin lemaatı olduğundan; âyâtın bir hassası olan usandırmamak ve halâvetini muhafaza etmek hassasının bir cilvesi, o tefekkür âyinesinde temessül etmiştir. |
| I realized recently that the powerful source of life and brilliant lights in the various parts of the Risale-i Nur are flashes of those sequences of thought. | Bu âhirde gördüm ki: Risale-i Nur’un eczalarındaki kuvvetli ukde-i hayatiye ve parlak nurlar, o silsile-i tefekküratın lem’alarıdır. |
| Thinking that they would affect others as they had affected me, I formed the intention to set them all down in writing towards the end of my life. | Bana ettikleri tesiri başka zâtlara da edeceği düşüncesiyle, âhir ömrümde mecmuunu kaleme almak niyet etmiştim. |
| For sure, important parts of them have been included in the Risale-i Nur but a further power and value will be found in them in their totality. | Gerçi çok mühim parçaları risalelerde dercedilmiştir; fakat heyet-i mecmuasında başka bir kuvvet ve kıymet bulunacaktır. |
| Since the end of life is not clear, and since the conditions here of my imprisonment have taken on a form worse than death, | Âhir-i ömür muayyen olmadığı için, bu hapisteki mahkûmiyetim ve vaziyetim ölümden daha beter bir şekil aldığından, |
| not waiting for my life to end, on the insistence and importunity of my brothers I have written those sequences of thought without changing them, as seven chapters. | âhir-i hayatı beklemiyerek, kardeşlerimin ısrar ve ilhahları ile, tağyir etmeyerek, o silsile-i tefekkürat “yedi bab” üstünde yazıldı. |
| [The remaining six chapters of this Flash have been published in hand-duplicated editions of The Flashes, and not included here.] | [Bu Lem’anın diğer altı babı, teksir Lem’alar mecmuasında neşredilmiştir.] |
| THE THIRD CHAPTER On the Degrees of ‘God is Most Great!’ | اَلْبَابُ الثَّالِثُ فِى مَرَاتِبِ اَللَّهُ اَكْبَرُ |
| We shall mention seven of its thirty-three degrees. An important part of those degrees have been expounded in the Second Station of the Twentieth Letter, at the end of the Second Stopping-Place of the Thirty-Second Word, and at the beginning of the Third Stopping-Place. | Otuzüç mertebesinden yedi mertebeyi zikredeceğiz. O mertebelerden mühim bir kısmı, Yirminci Mektub’un İkinci Makamında ve Otuzikinci Söz’ün İkinci Mevkıfının âhirinde ve Üçüncü Mevkıfının evvelinde izah edilmiştir. |
| Those who want to understand the reality of those degrees should refer to those two parts of the Risale-i Nur. | Şu mertebelerin hakikatını anlamak isteyenler, o iki Söze müracaat etsinler. |
| The First Degree | |
| Say: “Praise be to God who begets no son and has no partner in [His] dominion: nor [needs] He any to protect Him from humiliation: yes, magnify Him for His greatness and glory!”(17:111) | اَلْمَرْتَبَةُ اْلاُولَى :وَ قُلِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِى لَمْ يَتَّخِذْ وَلَدًا وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ شَرِيكٌ فِى الْمُلْكِ وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ وَلِىٌّ مِنَ الذُّلِّ وَ كَبِّرْهُ تَكْبِيرًا ۞ لَبَّيْكَ وَ سَعْدَيْكَ جَلَّ جَلاَلُهُ |
| God is Most Great, may His Glory be exalted! In power and knowledge, greater is He than everything. For He is the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form, who through His power fashions man like the universe; He writes the universe with the pen of His determining as He writes man with the same pen. For the macrocosm is like the microcosm: both are fashioned by His power, inscribed by His pen; He creates the macrocosm as a place of prostration, while He gives existence to the microcosm as prostrating; He brings the former into being as a property, while He gives existence to the latter as owned and needy for the property; His art in the former displays it as a book, while His colouring in the latter shines through speech; His power in the former reveals His majesty, while His mercy in the latter arrays His bounty; His majesty in the former testifies that He is One, while His bounty in the latter proclaims that He is Single, Undivided; His stamp on the former is on all things, universal and particular, whether at rest or in motion, while His seal on the latter is on the body and on the limbs, and on their cells and particles. | اَللَّهُ اَكْبَرُ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قُدْرَةً وَ عِلْمًا اِذْ هُوَ الْخَالِقُ الْبَارِىءُ الْمُصَوِّرُ الَّذِى صَنَعَ اْلاِنْسَانَ بِقُدْرَتِهِ كَالْكَائِنَاتِ وَ كَتَبَ الْكَائِنَاتِ بِقَلَمِ قَدَرِهِ كَمَا كَتَبَ اْلاِنْسَانَ بِذَلِكَ الْقَلَمِ اِذْ ذَاكَ الْعَالَمُ الْكَبِيرُ كَهَذَا الْعَالَمِ الصَّغِيرِ مَصْنُوعُ قُدْرَتِهِ مَكْتُوبُ قَدَرِهِ اِبْدَاعُهُ لِذَاكَ صَيَّرَهُ مَسْجِدًا اِيجَادُهُ لِهَذَا صَيَّرَهُ سَاجِدًا اِنْشَائُهُ لِذَاكَ صَيَّرَ ذَاكَ مُلْكًا بِنَائُهُ لِهَذَا صَيَّرَهُ مَمْلُوكًا صَنْعَتُهُ فِى ذَاكَ تَظَاهَرَتْ كِتَابًا صِبْغَتُهُ فِى هَذَا تَزَاهَرَتْ خِطَابًا قُدْرَتُهُ فِى ذَاكَ تُظْهِرُ حِشْمَتَهُ رَحْمَتُهُ فِى هَذَا تُنَظِّمُ نِعْمَتَهُ حِشْمَتُهُ فِى ذَاكَ تَشْهَدُ هُوَ الْوَاحِدُ نِعْمَتُهُ فِى هَذَا تُعْلِنُ هُوَ اْلاَحَدُ سِكَّتُهُ فِى ذَاكَ فِى الْكُلِّ وَ اْلاَجْزَاءِ سُكُونًا حَرَكةً خَاتَمُهُ فِى هَذَا فِى الْجِسْمِ وَ اْلاَعْضَاءِ حُجَيْرَةً ذَرَّةً |
| Now consider His works as a whole: you will see as clearly as daylight absolute profusion within absolute order and regularity; with absolute speed yet absolute balance; with absolute ease yet with absolute skill; on a vast scale yet with absolute beauty of art; over infinite distances yet with complete unity of kind; with absolute intermingling, yet absolute differentiation; with absolute lack of expense together with absolute value. This situation testifies to the mind, as it compels the foolish dissembler to accept, that this art and unity is the work of a possessor of absolute power, a possessor of absolute knowledge. | فَانْظُرْ اِلَى اۤثَارِهِ الْمُتَّسِقَةِ كَيْفَ تَرَى كَالْفَلَقِ سَخَاوَةً مُطْلَقَةً مَعَ اِنْتِظَامٍ مُطْلَقٍ فِى سُرْعَةٍ مُطْلَقَةٍ مَعَ اِتِّزَانٍ مُطْلَقٍ فِى سُهُولَةٍ مُطْلَقَةٍ مَعَ اِتْقَانٍ مُطْلَقٍ فِى وُسْعَةٍ مُطْلَقَةٍ مَعَ حُسْنِ صُنْعٍ مُطْلَقٍ فِى بُعْدَةٍ مُطْلَقَةٍ مَعَ اِتِّفَاقٍ مُطْلَقٍ فِى خِلْطَةٍ مُطْلَقَةٍ مَعَ اِمْتِيَازٍ مُطْلَقٍ فِى رُخْصَةٍ مُطْلَقَةٍ مَعَ غُلُوٍّ مُطْلَقٍ فَهَذِهِ الْكَيْفِيَّةُ الْمَشْهُودَةُ شَاهِدَةٌ لِلْعَاقِلِ الْمُحَقِّقِ مُجْبِرَةٌ لِْلاَحْمَقِ الْمُنَافِقِ عَلَى قَبُولِ الصَّنْعَةِ وَ الْوَحْدَةِ لِلْحَقِّ ذِى الْقُدْرَةِ الْمُطْلَقَةِ وَ هُوَ الْعَلِيمُ الْمُطْلَقُ |
| In unity lies absolute ease, while in multiplicity and associating partners with God are incomprehensible difficulties. | وَ فِى الْوَحْدَةِ سُهُولَةٌ مُطْلَقَةٌ وَ فِى الْكَثْرَةِ وَ الشِّرْكَةِ صُعُوبَةٌ مُنْغَلِقَةٌ |
| If all things are attributed to one, the universe’s creation is as easy as the creation of a palm-tree, and the palm-tree as the fruit. But when ascribed to multiplicity, to create a palm-tree is as difficult as creating the universe and each fruit as difficult as the tree – so difficult as to be impossible. For with a single act, a single person may obtain a single result and situation for many things without difficulty and without having recourse to other means. Whereas if the situation and result are referred to many, they could be obtained only with great trouble and dispute and pursuing other means. It would be like an officer referring his duty to the soldiers, the master builder to the stones of a building, the earth to the planets, the waterfall to the drops of water, and the central point of a circle to all the points on the circumference. | اِنْ اُسْنِدَ كُلُّ اْلاَشْيَاءِ لِلْوَاحِدِ فَالْكَائِنَاتُ كَالنَّخْلَةِ وَ النَّخْلَةُ كَالثَّمَرَةِ سُهُولَةً فِى اْلاِبْتِدَاعِ اِنْ اُسْنِدَ لِلْكَثْرَةِ فَالنَّخْلَةُ كَالْكَائِنَاتِ وَ الثَّمَرَةُ كَالشَّجَرَاتِ صُعُوبَةً فِى اْلاِمْتِنَاعِ اِذِ الْوَاحِدُ بِالْفِعْلِ الْوَاحِدِ يُحَصِّلُ نَتِيجَةً وَ وَضْعِيَّةً لِلْكَثِيرِ بِلاَ كُلْفَةٍ وَ لاَ مُبَاشَرَةٍ لَوْ اُحِيلَتْ تِلْكَ الْوَضْعِيَّةُ وَ النَّتِيجَةُ اِلَى الْكَثْرَةِ لاَيُمْكِنُ اَنْ تَصِلَ اِلَيْهَا اِلاَّ بِتَكَلُّفَاتٍ وَ مُبَاشَرَاتٍ وَ مُشَاجَرَاتٍ كَاْلاَمِيرِ مَعَ النَّفَرَاتِ وَ الْبَانِى مَعَ الْحَجَرَاتِ وَ اْلاَرْضِ مَعَ السَّيَّارَاتِ وَ الْفَوَّارَةِ مَعَ الْقَطَرَاتِ وَ نُقْطَةِ الْمَرْكَزِ مَعَ النُّقَطِ فِى الدَّائِرَةِ |
| Through the mystery of relations an unlimited power is present in unity. A thing or cause is not compelled to carry the sources of its strength, and the work resulting from the cause acquires greatness in relation to the thing on which it relies. But when partners are associated with God, all causes are obliged to carry their own sources of strength, and the resulting works diminish to their extent. It is because of this that an ant and a fly defeated tyrants, and a tiny seed bears upon it a huge tree. | بِسِرِّ اَنَّ فِى الْوَحْدَةِ يَقُومُ اْلاِنْتِسَابُ مَقَامَ قُدْرَةٍ غَيْرَ مَحْدُودَةٍ وَ لاَيَضْطَرُّ السَّبَبُ لِحَمْلِ مَنَابِعِ قُوَّتِهِ وَ يَتَعَاظَمُ اْلاَثَرُ بِالنِّسْبَةِ اِلَى الْمُسْنَدِ اِلَيْهِ وَ فِى الشِّرْكَةِ يَضْطَرُّ كُلُّ سَبَبٍ لِحَمْلِ مَنَابِعِ قُوَّتِهِ فَيَتَصَاغَرُ اْلاَثَرُ بِنِسْبَةِ جِرْمِهِ وَ مِنْ هُنَا غَلَبَتِ النَّمْلَةُ وَ الذُّبَابَةُ عَلَى الْجَبَابِرَةِ وَ حَمَلَتِ النُّوَاةُ الصَّغِيرَةُ شَجَرَةً عَظِيمَةً |
| If all things are ascribed to one person, there is no need for creation from absolute non-existence, for it consists of transferring a being which has existence in knowledge to external existence, like transferring the image on the mirror at the back of a camera onto photographic paper, thus establishing its external existence with complete ease, or like revealing words written in invisible ink by spreading a special substance on the writing. | وَ بِسِرِّ اَنَّ فِى اِسْنَادِ كُلِّ اْلاَشْيَاءِ اِلَى الْوَاحِدِ لاَيَكُونُ اْلاِيجَادُ مِنَ الْعَدَمِ الْمُطْلَقِ بَلْ يَكُونُ اْلاِيجَادُ عَيْنَ نَقْلِ الْمَوْجُودِ الْعِلْمِىِّ اِلَى الْوُجُودِ الْخَارِجِىِّ كَنَقْلِ الصُّورَةِ الْمُتَمَثِّلَةِ فِى الْمِرْاۤةِ اِلَى الصَّحِيفَةِ الْفُطُوغْرَفِيَّةِ لِتَثْبِيتِ وُجُودٍ خَارِجِىٍّ لَهَا بِكَمَالِ السُّهُولَةِ اَوْ اِظْهَارِ الْخَطِّ الْمَكْتُوبِ بِمِدَادٍ لاَيُرَى بِوَاسِطَةِ مَادَّةٍ مُظْهِرَةٍ لِلْكِتَابَةِ الْمَسْتُورَةِ |
| When things are ascribed to causes and multiplicity, it necessitates their creation from absolute non-existence and this is impossible, the most difficult of things. In unity is an ease; it is so easy as to be necessary. While in multiplicity is great difficulty; such difficulty as to be impossible. | وَ فِى اِسْنَادِ اْلاَشْيَاءِ اِلَى اْلاَسْبَابِ وَ الْكَثْرَةِ يَلْزَمُ اْلاِيجَادُ مِنَ الْعَدَمِ الْمُطْلَقِ.. وَ هُوَ اِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ مُحَالاً يَكُونُ اَصْعَبَ اْلاَشْيَاءِ فَالسُّهُولَةُ فِى الْوَحْدَةِ وَاصِلَةٌ اِلَى دَرَجَةِ الْوُجُوبِ و الصُّعُوبَةُ فِى الْكَثْرَةِ وَاصِلَةٌ اِلَى دَرَجَةِ اْلاِمْتِنَاعِ |
| With unity, it is possible to create a being from absolute non-existence. | وَ بِحِكْمَةِ اَنَّ فِى الْوَحْدَةِ يُمْكِنُ اْلاِبْدَاعُ وَ اِيجَادُ اْلاَيْسِ (**) مِنَ اللَّيْسُِ(*) |
| … | (**): اَللَّيْسُ : Adem-i sırf demektir. (*): َاْلاَيْسُ : Mevcud demektir. |
| That is, to create a being out of pure non-being instantaneously, without matter, and to pour particles into a mould that exists as knowledge without difficulty or confusion. While as all the intelligent agree, with multiplicity and associating partners with God, original creation is not possible from non-existence. Because for the existence of a living creature, particles and elements dispersed throughout the earth have to be gathered together. And when there is no mould existent in knowledge, all the particles have to possess all-encompassing knowledge and absolute will so as to preserve the particles in the body of the animate creature. | يَعْنِى اِبْدَاعُ الْمَوْجُودِ مِنَ الْعَدَمِ الصِّرْفِ بِلاَ مُدَّةٍ وَ لاَ مَادَّةٍ .. وَ اِفْرَاغُ الذَّرَّاتِ فِى الْقَالَبِ الْعِلْمِىِّ بِلاَ كُلْفَةٍ وَ لاَ خِلْطَةٍ وَ فِى الشِّرْكَةِ وَ الْكَثْرَةِ لاَيُمْكِنُ اْلاِبْدَاعُ مِنَ الْعَدَمِ بِاِتِّفَاقِ كُلِّ اَهْلِ الْعَقْلِ فَلاَ بُدَّ لِوُجُودِ ذِى حَيَاةٍ جَمْعُ ذَرَّاتٍ مُنْتَشِرَةٍ فِى اْلاَرْضِ وَ الْعَنَاصِرِ .. وَ بِعَدَمِ الْقَالَبِ الْعِلْمِىِّ يَلْزَمُ لِمُحَافَظَةِ الذَّرَّاتِ فِى جِسْمِ ذِى الْحَيَاةِ وُجُودُ عِلْمٍ كُلِّىٍّ وَ اِرَادَةٍ مُطْلَقَةٍ فِى كُلِّ ذَرَّةٍ |
| In addition, there is no need at all for those things assumed to be partners to God, just as it is impossible that they should be. To make such a claim, therefore, is purely arbitrary; there is nothing in beings to suggest that they have any role in their creation, no sign. For the creation of the heavens and the earth necessitates perfect, infinite power, which is in no need of partners. If there were partners, it would necessitate their limiting that infinite and utterly perfect power and bringing it to an end in infinite time, although there is no necessity for this, indeed, although the reverse is necessitated; and this is impossible in five respects. Such partners are therefore impossible and precluded. Moreover, beings in no way suggest or point to their existence. | وَ مَعَ ذَلِكَ اَنَّ الشُّرَكَاءَ مُسْتَغْنِيَةٌ عَنْهَا وَ مُمْتَنِعَةٌ بِالذَّاتِ بِخَمْسَةِ وُجُوهٍ مُتَدَاخِلَةٍ وَ الشُّرَكَاءُ الْمُسْتَغْنِيَةُ عَنْهَا وَ الْمُمْتَنِعَةُ بِالذَّاتِ تَحَكُّمِيَّةٌ مَحْضَةٌ لاَ اَمَارَةَ عَلَيْهَا وَ لاَ اِشَارَةَ اِلَيْهَا فِى شَيْءٍ مِنَ الْمَوْجُودَاتِ اِذْ خِلْقَةُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَ اْلاَرْضِ تَسْتَلْزِمُ قُدْرَةً كَامِلَةً غَيْرَ مُتَنَاهِيَةٍ بِالضَّرُورَةِ فَاسْتُغْنِىَ عَنِ الشُّرَكَاءِ وَ اِلاَّ لَزِمَ تَحْدِيدُ وَ انْتِهَاءُ قُدْرَةٍ كَامِلَةٍ غَيْرِ مُتَنَاهِيَةٍ فِى وَقْتِ عَدَمِ التَّنَاهِى بِقُوَّةٍ مُتَنَاهِيَةٍ بِلاَ ضَرُورَةٍ مَعَ الضَّرُورَةِ فِى عَكْسِهِ وَ هُوَ مُحَالٌ فِى خَمْسَةِ اَوْجُهٍ فَامْتَنَعَتِ الشُّرَكَاءُ مَعَ اَنَّ الشُّرَكَاءَ الْمُمْتَنِعَةَ بِتِلْكَ الْوُجُوهِ لاَ اِشَارَةَ اِلَى وُجُودِهَا وَ لاَ اَمَارَةَ عَلَى تَحَقُّقِهَا فِى شَيْءٍ مِنَ الْمَوْجُودَاتِ |
| We have expounded this matter in the First Stopping-Place of the Thirty-Second Word, showing how all things from minute particles to planets, and from the planets to individual facial features in the Second Stopping-Place, reject the ascribing of partners to God, and pointing out the stamp of divine unity on each of them. | فَقَدِ اسْتَفْسَرْنَا هَذِهِ الْمَسْئَلَةَ (فِى الْمَوْقِفِ اْلاَوَّلِ) مِنَ الرِّسَالَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ وَ الثَّلاَثِينَ مِنَ الذَّرَّاتِ اِلَى السَّيَّارَاتِ.. (وَ فِى الْمَوْقِفِ الثَّانِى) مِنَ السَّمَوَاتِ اِلَى التَّشَخُّصَاتِ الْوَجْهِيَّةِ فَاَعْطَتْ جَمِيعُهَا جَوَابَ رَدِّ الشِّرْكِ بِاِرَائَةِ سِكَّةِ التَّوْحِيدِ |
| Just as He has no partners, so He has no assistants or ministers. Causes are merely fine veils to the disposals of pre-eternal power; in reality they have no creative effect. For man is the highest of causes and the one with the most extensive will, and out of a hundred parts of the most obvious volitional acts such as eating, speaking, and thinking, he has only one dubious part. If the true power of disposal of the highest of causes and the one with the most extensive will is thus restricted, how is it possible for the animals and inanimate creatures to have a part in the creation and dominicality of the Creator of the heavens and the earth? Just as the envelope in which a king sends a gift, or the handkerchief in which he wraps a present, or the retainer who brings the gift to you, cannot be partners in the king’s sovereignty, so the causes by which bounties are sent, or the coffers containing the bounties stored up for us, or the causes wrapped up as divine gifts and sent to us as presents, cannot be partners to or assistants of God, or intermediaries which have any effect. | فَكَمَا لاَ شُرَكَاءَ لَهُ كَذَلِكَ لاَ مُعِينَ وَلاَ وُزَرَاءَ لَهُ وَ مَا اْلاَسْبَابُ اِلاَّ حِجَابٌ رَقِيقٌ عَلَى تَصَرُّفِ الْقُدْرَةِ اْلاَزَلِيَّةِ لَيْسَ لَهَا تَاْثِيرٌ اِيجَادِىٌّ فِى نَفْسِ اْلاَمْرِ اِذْ اَشْرَفُ اْلاَسْبَابِ وَ اَوْسَعُهَا اِخْتِيَارًا هُوَ اْلاِنْسَانُ مَعَ اَنَّهُ لَيْسَ فِى يَدِهِ مِنْ اَظْهَرِ اَفْعَالِهِ اْلاِخْتِيَارِيَّةِ كَاْلاَكْلِ وَ الْكَلاَمِ وَ الْفِكْرِ مِنْ مِاَتِ اَجْزَاءٍ اِلاَّ جُزْءٌ وَاحِدٌ مَشْكُوكٌ فَاِذَا كَانَ السَّبَبُ اْلاَشْرَفُ وَ اْلاَوْسَعُ اِخْتِيَارًا مَغْلُولَ اْلاَيْدِى عَنِ التَّصَرُّفِ الْحَقِيقِىِّ كَمَا تَرَى فَكَيْفَ يُمْكِنُ اَنْ تَكُونَ الْبَهِيمَاتُ وَ الْجَمَادَاتُ شَرِيكًا فِى اْلاِيجَادِ وَ الرُّبُوبِيَّةِ لِخَالِقِ اْلاَرْضِ وَ السَّمَوَاتِ فَكَمَا لاَيُمْكِنُ اَنْ يَكُونَ الظَّرْفُ الَّذِى وَضَعَ السُّلْطَانُ فِيهِ الْهَدِيَّةَ اَوِ الْمَنْدِيلُ الَّذِى لَفَّ فِيهِ الْعَطِيَّةَ اَوِ النَّفَرُ الَّذِى اَرْسَلَ عَلَى يَدِهِ النِّعْمَةَ اِلَيْكَ شُرَكَاءَ للِسُّلْطَانِ فِى سَلْطَنَتِهِ كَذَلِكَ لاَ يُمْكِنُ اَنْ يَكُونَ اْلاَسْبَابُ الْمُرْسَلَةُ عَلَى اَيْدِيهِمُ النِّعَمُ اِلَيْنَا وَ الظُّرُوفُ الَّتِى هِىَ صَنَادِيقُ للِنِّعَمِ الْمُدَّخَرَةِ لَنَا وَ اْلاَسْبَابُ الَّتِى اِلْتَفَّتْ عَلَى عَطَايَا اِلَهِيَّةٍ مُهْدَاتٌ اِلَيْنَا شُرَكَاءَ اَعْوَانًا اَوْ وَسَائِطً مُوءَثِّرَةً.. |