Page 22 - The Glory in the Heavens

reach the time when your mother was not yet pregnant.

There was no universe before Allah created it.

When we rewind time, the universe also becomes

younger. It gets smaller until it becomes an insignifi-
cant point and finally disappears. All these indicate

that the universe has been "created".

Meanwhile, let's remind ourselves that we use the

word "creation" when we want to explain that some-

thing is brought into being from nothing. Only Allah

can cause something to exist from nothing. In other

words, only Allah can "create" something. People can

also make things that did not exist before. For
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instance, they can paint pictures. They can build
ships. However, the truth is that people can cause

something to exist using the materials available in this

world and by imitating things already existing in this

world. Therefore, we cannot call this "creation".

Creation is bringing something into being from noth-

ing without prior examples. Allah has created every-

thing in the universe, including Earth, from nothing.

Man imitates what Allah has already created,

even if painting a picture. If we asked you to draw a
picture of a landscape on a sheet of paper, what

would you draw? Most possibly you would paint the