Seventh phrase:

He makes to die. He gives and withdraws life. Death is not a destruction or extinction to be attributed to nature and causes. Rather, just as a seed outwardly dies and rots while inwardly growing into a new and more elaborate living plant, death is the beginning of eternal life. Thus the Absolutely Powerful One Who creates death grants and administers life. We point to a mighty proof of this manifestation of Divine Unity below.

Divine Will causes all existence to move in a continuous flow. For example, the universe moves incessantly by its Lord’s Command. All creatures, by God’s leave, flow unceasingly in the stream of time. Sent from the Unseen World, the are dressed in external (material) existence here and then orderly poured into the other world. By the Lord’s Command, they continually come from the future, pause at the present, and then are poured into the past.

This ordered flow is carried out with the wisest mercy and benevolence. The consistent movement is done by a most knowledgeable wisdom and orderliness. The flow’s current is managed with solicitude and equilibrium. Everything is done for definite purposes, benefits, and aims. In other words, an All-Powerful One of Majesty, an All-Wise One of Perfection continually gives life to and employs the families of beings, from their individual members to the worlds they form, and then discharges them for a purpose. He makes them die, sends them to the other world, and transfers them from the sphere of Power to the sphere of Knowledge.

One who cannot administer this universe and time, give life to diverse creatures and call them to death as single individuals, create spring as easily as a flower and plant it and then pluck it through death, cannot claim to create death and make living things die. A most insignificant living thing’s life and death must occur according to the Law of an All-Majestic Being in Whose hand are all truths of life and varieties of death, and by His permission, Command, Power, and Knowledge.