| Just as the Resurrection is certain, so the One Who will bring it about can do so |
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| The Words - The Spirit, Angels, the Afterlife | |
| Written by Said Nursi | |
| Wednesday, 08 February 2006 | |
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Page 1 of 4 Third fundamental:Just as the Resurrection's necessity and requirement is certain, so the One Who will bring it about can do so. As He has power over everything, everything is the same in relation to His Power. He creates the spring as easily as a flower. He is so powerful that creation bears witness to His Power and Majesty. Given this, how can you doubt that He can raise the dead for the Last Judgment? His Power is so great that He causes a new environment to come into existence each century, renews the universe every year, and creates a new world every day. He hangs many transient worlds upon the string of time as centuries, years, or even days pass for a perfect, definite purpose. He displays His Wisdom's perfection and His art's beauty by clothing Earth in the garment of spring as if it were a single flower, and then decorating and embellishing it with countless examples of resurrection. Since He can do such things, how can you doubt His ability to bring about the Resurrection and replace this world with another? The verse: Your creation and your being raised up are as but the creation and raising up of a single soul (31:28) announces that the All-Powerful One is so powerful that nothing is difficult for Him, that creating innumerable individuals is as easy creating one. Divine Power comes from the Divine Essence's very nature, and so there can be no incapacity connected with It. As it operates ·the inner, immaterial dimension of existence, no obstacle can interfere with Its operation. In Its relation to things, Divine Power resembles the Divine laws of nature, which say that creating a universal thing is as easy as creating a particular thing. Consider the following arguments: |
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