Chapter II: Foundation of Belief
(10) Tenth basisc principle. It is that God is wise by His knowledge, living with His life, mighty with His power, willing with his will, speaking with His words, seeing with His light and hearing. These attributes belong to His eternal attributes. If one says that He is wise without wisdom, his words will be like those of a man who says that he is wealthy without his wealth, learned without his learning and the object of learning. Learning, object of learning and the learned man are inseparable, as murder murderer and one murdered are in separable. As murder can not be conceived without the killer and one killed a learned man cannot be concevied without learning and an object of learning.
THIRD PILLAR OF FAITH Knowledge of the action of God involving ten principles.
(1) First basic principle. It is the knowledge that every event in the world is His action, creation and invention. There is no creator of it except He. He well regulated the creation and gave it its due power and motion. All the actions of His servant are His creations and keep connection with His power, confirming thereby His words-God is the creator of everything — 9 : 102. God created you and what you make — 37 : 96. Whatever is your conversation, hidden or open, He truly knows the innermost recess of your hearts." "What ! does He not know when He has created, when He is the subtle, the cognisant" He ordered men to take precaution in their actions, words, secret matters and thoughts as He knows the orientation of their actions and gave proof of His knowledge by creating creations. How will He not be the Creator of the actions of men when He-has got full power without any decreae? His power is connected with the movements of men. All motions are similar and are connected with power of God. What then would prevent its connection in the case of some actions and would not prevent it in the case of other actions when all are similar? How could animals be independent of the Creator when the wonderful workmanship of spiders, bees and other animals amaze the wisest and intelligent
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minds? Who has got power of spaciality in these creations except God? Then animals themselves donot know of the benefits they produce. So they cannot be called the cause of workmanship Now think that all creations bow down to One who is the Creator of the heavens and the earth.