Chapter V: Oneness of God and Trust in God
by others or absolute like the action of God. Man's will and strength are guided by another. A man is the object or intermediary of God's will and power flow. He gives birth to power and will within man. For this reason, man is not completely guided by another like a tree. Hence the action of man cannot be called completely controlled This is what is called acquisition as man is the medium of the flow of God's power or intermediary path. This power flows through him according to the law of God. Hence man's action is not opposite to man's freedom or dependence. God's action is absolutely free and wilful with power. But His will and power are not subject to thinking and efforts like us.
Question: You say that intellect raises will, will raises power and power raises motion. If it is true, each is begotten by another and not from the power of God. If you deny it, what is the meaning of one coming from another?
Answer: It is not true that one comes from another. All these things depend on an original Power, the source of all powers.
Only those who are perfect in knowledge can understand it. It is true that one thing is connected with another thing in a chain and that is with a condition. When there arises wisdom, then comes the will from the original power. Again intellect does not come unless there is life and life also does not come unless there is a body for life. It cannot be said that there is birth of life from body.
The chain of arrangement of things is like that. God says: I have not created what is between heaven and earth out of sport. I have created both with truth. So what is between heaven and earth has been created according to a set purposes and arrangement and order. The nature of one created thing can not be changed to another. The arrangement with which a thing has been created cannot be altered. For instance, the rise of some sort of knowledge is not delayed in foetus if there is life in it and will is not delayed in case of rise of knowledge. This is well arranged plan.
Question: Tauhid and Shariat - how do they get together?
The meaning of Tauhid is that there is no doer of an action except God and the meaning of Shariat is to fix the duties of a servant. If the servant becomes the doer of an action, how can God become the doer?
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