This is a long letter. At one place it says: Greek
philosophers argue that “Nonexistence will not come into existence. And
something which exists will not cease to exists.” [Today’s science imitators
say so, too. Not only is this view incompatible with Islam, but these people
call those who hold this view ‘progressive people’. And they call Muslims
‘regressive people’ because they say that “All things were nonexistent. Allâhu ta’âlâ created all of them from
nothing.”] What these science imitators say is only a product of their fancy
and imagination. It is quite easy for Allâhu ta’âlâ, who is almighty, to create all things from nothing or to annihilate
the existence. When Lavoisier (Antoine Laurent, 1743-94), French chemist and
physician, who was executed by the French revolutionary leaders in 1209 (1794
A.D.), observed that substances did not cease to exist during chemical
reactions, he said, “Nothing in nature ceases to exist, and nothing comes into
being from nonexistence.” He said so because he thought everything was
dependent on chemical reactions. The irreligious science imitators, who call
themselves ‘illuminated modernists’ and Muslims ‘fuddy-duddies’, exploited
Lavoisier’s theory as a document and clamoured that nothing had been created
from nonexistence, thus misleading many a Muslim student of science. Einstein
(Albert, 1879-1955), German-American physicist, (developed the theory of relativity
and) proved that matter ceased to exist by turning into energy. The dumbfounded
progressive impostors of science, whose
idiotic notion of Allâhu ta’âlâ had been confined to chemical reactions, stopped vociferating and
began fumbling around for other ploys to undermine Islam.]
All heavenly religions concur in the fact that the entire
existence was created from nothing, and deniers of this fact are ‘unbelievers’
in their credal nomenclatures. The sixty-seventh âyat of Maryam sûra purports:
“But does not man call to mind that We created him before
out of nothing?” Qâdî Abdullah Baydâwî, whom the
scholars of Tafsîr (exegesis, expounding of the Qur’ân
al-kerîm) hold as their most beloved master and guide, makes the
following observation in his book of Tafsîr entitled Anwâr-ut-tanzîl: “Allâhu ta’âlâ created man
from nothing.” To theorize that creation of all new beings from nothing is not
a constant process would mean to imply that Allâhu ta’âlâ has no more to do (with the new things’ coming into being) and
therefore His power is no longer effective. Allâhu ta’âlâ creates all substances from nothing and then every moment keeps
each and every one of them in existence. Therefore, matter cannot cease to
exist from itself. Objects come into being from substances. Their attributes
change continuously. Allâhu ta’âlâ is the only maker of all these material transfigurations and
attributive changes. Allâhu ta’âlâ and His Attributes are the only beings which remain in existence
eternally and never change. Neither they were created from nonexistence, nor
will they cease to exist.
’Âlam, i.e. the entire existence, existed in the
’ilm-i-ilâhî (Allâhu ta’âlâ’s knowledge) as it was (materially) nonexistent.
What existed in the ’ilm-i-ilâhî has been termed a’yân-i-thâbita; that state of existence has
been termed thubût-i-eshyâ; (material state of) existence in the outside has been termed wujûd-i-eshyâ (by the scholars of Islamic
science called Kalâm).
’Abdiyyat, i.e. being a slave of Allâhu ta’âlâ, requires believing in Him and
loving Him. Obeying the Sharî’at and avoiding bid’ats are symptomatic of this
belief and love. As we observe, all things, nonexistent as they were, have been
created in a perfectly calculated order. For instance, all the human organs are
created in ultimate neatness, each representing immaculately well-planned
sketches. These utterly admirable phenomena indicate that everything has been
created by an owner of endless knowledge and power.