"What was it before that?".God Was in nothingness and His Throne was on the water, so asked one of the prophet’s disciples, and so answered the seal of messengers. The Issue of being and non–being is not settled neither by mind nor philosophy nor science and even the revelation did not unfold it for us .It is one of the dilemmas that preoccupied the philosophers ’minds and emptied their pens throughout the ages. It is one of the big questions and issues such as who created us , why we are here, and whether we are destined or not ; If we are destined to engage in our actions, how that is reconciled with the divine justice and accountability at the Judgment Day ? And If we have free will, how that is consistent with the eternal and unitary God Almighty? Man is composed of a body and a spirit , and as long as the body is annihilated ,so it is not eternal but accidental . But the urgent question is whether the soul is created and made as it is by God? . If so, is not this inconsistent with God's justice as He brings it back again and asks it for what it has done in this world ? And if it is not created and its works are not dictated to it by God , how that can be reconciled with God who is known as the Omnipotent and Omniscient who has no partners with him being the one and only doer in the universe ? .. There are some insights introduced by knowledgeable people of mysticism in being and nothingness which can be prefaced by intuitive propositions as follows: (1) God is perfect ,absolute and is always just(2) So, God does not force humans to do something against their wills (3) So, the soul , and not flesh, which is the abode of the rational will has eternal wills and desires not dictated any more by God with the meaning that it has eternal and fixed natures and this not only pertains to the spirit, but also to everything in existence . Long ago, Leibniz the German philosopher said "God is absolute perfection, then that entails that he brings to existence as many beings as possible ...Verily , if there are many verses from the Holy Quran which emphasizes that God is the real doer , such as "and thrown as surrender, but Allah threw," "Say It's all in God's hands", "and God with you wherever you are " , then how can we reconcile the shot which is an act preceded by a reasonable will and the fact that God has already shot the arrow ?! .... Almighty God, Glory to Him , does not direct or stir our intentions and what we call the will of the soul and conscience! . The knowledgeable ascetics said that all “ possibilities” were eternal objects or truths in nothingness and had certain properties as those betrayed lack for God and absolute submission to Him to get it out of nothingness , which is the worst of all , into existence. All possibilities, what was and what is and what will be, have fixed eternal natures in nothingness. The nothingness is not non-existent as the eternal absolute God must be counterparted by nothingness which is nothing only to us not to God with whom the nothingness has a submissive humiliated dialogue so that God may rid it of the humiliation and poverty of non-existence. Thus , the natures of beings are eternal meaning that what they are ,is not made or caused by God ; otherwise , God compels them to assume natures which are not themselves and that is impossible to pertain to God the perfect and just . The Devil, for example, had the nature of arrogance on his nothingness and the fact that God knows the unseen does not mean He forced the Satan to take this certain haughty nature. There are many of the gloomy black natures which do not plead asking presence ,so they remain non-existent. I have said before that there is nothing worse than “ non being “ and if you ,reader , doubt about what I say ,then I ask you to meditate about your” being as “ non being “.I think you cannot imagine what terrible idea it is !! . So , all the existents , including us , are barred from the abyss of going back to our origins in nothingness only with God ‘s always providing us with the attribute of existence .Let us suppose that electricity went out suddenly, would the picture remain there ? .Suppose your contact with your mirror has stopped ,would a picture of you be there ? God has manifested, and still manifests, not through his “ Person “but through His attributes like , capacity, and knowledge, hearing, and sight .. etc. in the existents so that they may not revert to nothingness again . It is not said ,for instance , when you manifest yourself in the mirror that you are inside it and this is the same thing with God when He reflects His attributes in us .In addition , your manifestation in the various mirrors differ according to the purity and quality of the mirror itself ; your manifestation is the same with the dark ,semi-dark and polished mirrors .Every mirror reflects your picture according to the extent of readiness and purity of the mirror itself .The same analogy pertains to God,Glory to Him , as He manifests His attributes in the existents in as much as they are ready to receive them .This explanation answers such puzzling baffling questions concerning the One and Only and the Plurality He has produced exactly as the ascetic poet said ,"the face in mirror is but one ** but if multiplied mirrors,they became more " . From here came the wrong saying of Ibn Arabi namely, that God needs us as we need him as he gives us presence and we make His qualities working!!. Almighty God is much richer than to need us and it’s we who lack to Him ; as they are there and valid whether He created us or not .He could only grant us the qualities we have because He had them eternally and whether He manifested to us the qualities we have or not , He still posses them . The Almighty is still providing us constantly and permanently with existence at successive durations . The relationship between God and His Universe may be analogous to man‘s body and his soul in that man ‘s soul cannot be inside or clothed with the body or separated from it .Otherwise , the soul can be reduced in case some of the body’s organs are amputated or dreams would not have come to man in slumber in case the soul is wholly separated from the body ; in other words , you may deprive a person of his feet and his arms and one of his lungs , and he is still alive knows and feels .etc.. .The same relation pertains to God with His universe ; He is neither aloof from His creations nor identified with them as Spinoza claimed in” Pantheism” and as believed by some Indians so that ,as they claim, every idea that arises in mind is His idea and all corporeal things you are parts of Him . God is not the world ,but God is in constant contact with it. At last, God grant us the action to carry out our own wills ; for example , if you have the “volition “to hit an enemy of yours , then God says to you: THIS IS MY HAND ,SO HIT WITH IT , and if you want to caress a head of an orphan , God says : TAKE MY HAND CARESS WITH IT….
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