Hence, it has been understood that the present existence of the universe indicates that it has not existed since past eternity, and that there existed an original being, which had been created out of nothing. In other words, we have to accept the fact that beings have been created out of nothing and that today’s beings are the result of a succession of beings coming from those first beings. The book Sharh-i Mawâqif proves in deatil in the first section of its fifth chapter that there is a Creator who creates all classes of beings from nothing, that this Creator should be eternal, and should always exist, and that He should exist eternally without changing. Briefly, ‘to change’ means to become something else. When the Creator changes He becomes something else. His creativeness gets deranged. As explained in the third letter of the third volume of the book Maktûbât by Imâm-i Rabbânî, it is necessary that the Creator will never change and that He will always remain the same. Reasoning from what we have explained, the various classes of beings could not be eternal, and the unchanging Creator must be eternal, He must exist everlastingly. Therefore, there is a Creator who never changes and who is eternal. The name of this never changing creator is Allah.
Allâhu ta’âlâ sent Prophets to men in order to make Himself known. A reasonable, understanding person who reads about the life, the superior qualities of Hadrat Muhammad, who is His last and highest Prophet, will at once realize that Allâhu ta’âlâ exists and that Hadrat Muhammad is His Prophet. He will eagerly become a Muslim. It is called having îmân and being a Muslim to believe that Allâhu ta’âlâ exists, is One, and that Muhammad ‘’alaihis-salâm’ is His Prophet and the most superior one of His Prophets, and his every word is true and beneficial. A person who believes these facts is called a Mu’min and Muslim. The words of Muhammad ‘’alaihis-salâm’ are called hadîth-i sherîf. A person who does not believe any of those things clearly stated in the Qur’ân al-kerîm and hadîth-i sherîfs is called a kâfir. Those disbelievers who believe a history book written in ancient times by men as the words of Allâhu ta’âlâ are called ahl-i kitâb, that is, disbelievers with a book. Jews and Christians are disbelievers with a heavenly book. Those who prostrate themselves before a statue or grave of a man who is known by them as great and believe that he is able to do everything are called mushriks or idolaters. Brahmins, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians are in this group. Those who believe in none of the religions are called atheist and dahrî. Communists and Freemasons and those who have fallen into their traps because they are religiously ignorant are in this group.
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