Page 82 - The Evil Called Mockery

80 THE EVIL CALLED MOCKERY

Very evidently, there exists a supreme Creator Who has created
the entire material universe, and Who ceaselessly continues His
Creation. This Creator displays a magnificent Creation, and surely
He has eternal power and might.
This Creator describes Himself, the universe and the reason of
our existence for us through the Book He has sent down.
This Creator is Allah, and His book is the Qur'an.
The fact is, the heavens and the earth—that is, the universe—
are not stable. Their presence is made possible only by Allah's
Creation, and that they will disappear when He ends this Creation.
This is revealed in a verse as follows:
Allah keeps a firm hold on the heavens and earth, prevent-
ing them from vanishing away. And if they vanished no
one could then keep hold of them. Certainly He is Most
Forbearing, Ever-Forgiving. (Surah Fatir, 41)
As we mentioned at the beginning, some people have no gen-
uine understanding of Allah and so, as a result of terrible ignorance,
they imagine Him as a being present somewhere in the heavens and
not really intervening in worldly affairs. (Surely Allah is beyond
that.) The basis of this corrupt logic actually lies in the mistaken
thought that the universe is merely an assembly of matter and Allah
is "outside" this material world, in a faraway place. (Surely Allah is
beyond that.)
The only real absolute being is Allah. That means that only
Allah exists; matter is not absolute being. The material world on
the outside is one of the works of Allah's sublime Creation. Allah
is surely "everywhere" and encompasses all. This reality is ex-
plained in the Qur'an as follows;
Allah! There is no deity but He,—the Living, the Self-sub-
sisting, Eternal. Neither slumber nor sleep can overtake