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Questions on Islam originally shared: Questions: 1) How could the God be the closest to everything? 2) How could the Power of God reach even the tiniest things? 3) How could the God create and administrate everything at the same time?
Answer:
For example, consider the elevated truth expressed by verses like:
Indeed, His command when He wills a thing, is, “Be!”, and it is. (Holy Qur’an 36:82)
And the decision of the Hour is as the twinkling of an eye. (Holy Qur’an 16:77)
And We are closer to him than his jugular vein. (Holy Qur’an 50:16)
The angels ascend to Him in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years (Holy Qur’an 70:4)
which is that the Absolutely Powerful One creates things with such ease and speed, with such facility and lack of trouble, that it appears and is understood that He creates with a mere command.
Also, although the All-Powerful Maker is infinitely close to beings, they are infinitely distant from him.
Furthermore, despite His infinite might and glory, attaching importance to them, He also sets in order the most insignificant and lowly matters, and does not deny them the beauty of His art.
Thus, the perfect order within absolute ease observed in beings testifies to the existence of this Qur’anic truth.
The following comparison demonstrates its meaning and wisdom.
For example, And God’s is the highest similitude, the duties the sun displays through the dominical command and Divine subjugation, which is like a dense mirror to the Divine Name of Light among the All-Glorious Maker’s Most Beautiful Names, brings this truth closer to the understanding.
It is as follows:
Although through its elevatedness, the sun is infinitely close to all transparent and shining things, indeed, is closer to them than their own selves, and although it has an effect on them in numerous ways like through its manifestation, its image, and power of disposal, those transparent objects are thousands of years distant from it, they can in no way have an effect on it, they cannot claim to be close to it.
Also, the sun’s being as though present and seeing in all transparent particles, and wherever its light enters even, is understood through the sun’s reflection and its image being apparent in accordance with the particles’ capacities and colours.
Furthermore, the sun’s comprehensiveness and penetration increase to the vast extent of its luminosity.
It is because of the greatness of its luminosity that the tiniest things cannot hide or escape from it.
This means that through the mystery of luminosity its immense vastness does not exclude even insignificant and tiny things; on the contrary, it takes them within the sphere of its comprehension.
Moreover, if to suppose the impossible we were to imagine the sun acted with will in the tasks and manifestations its displays, with Divine permission it would function with such ease and speed and breadth in everything from particles and droplets and the surface of the sea to the planets, that it would be supposed that it performed these mighty disposals through a mere command.
A particle and a planet would be equal before its command.
The effulgence it would bestow on the surface of the sea, it would bestow also with perfect order on a particle in accordance with the particle’s capacity.
Thus, we see that the sun, which is a luminous bubble in the seas of the skies and a small and dense mirror to the manifestation of the Absolutely Powerful One’s Name of Light, observedly displays examples of the three principles of this truth.
So we surely believe with complete certainty as though witnessing it that the All-Glorious One, Who is the Light of Light, the Illuminator of Light, the Determiner of Light, and in comparison to Whose knowledge and power the sun’s light and heat is like earth, is all-present and all-seeing and infinitely close to all things with His knowledge and power, and that things are utterly distant from Him, and that He does things with such ease and facility that it is understood He creates with the ease and speed of a mere command, and that nothing at all, great or small, particular or universal, can escape from the sphere of His power, and that His magnificence encompasses all things.
And this has to be believed.
( The Words, The Fourteenth Word, The Fourth Matter, Risale-i Nur Collection)
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