First aim:

(Having been cast down by a star, the representative of those attributing partners to God gave up the attempt to find a part of creation that would accept him or her as God's partner. However, to incite doubt about God's Unity, he or she sought to arouse suspicions in the minds of its adherents by asking three questions.)

Question:·In the language of atheists, he or she asks: “I've found no evidence to prove my cause. But how can you prove the existence of a single One of infinite power? Why do you reject everything but His Power in the universe's creation and operation?

Answer: As argued convincingly in The Twenty-second Word, each creature is a clear proof for the Necessarily Existent Being, the Absolutely Powerful One's necessary existence. Each link in the chain of creation proves His Unity. Among the many Qur'anic arguments, particularly like: If you ask them who has created the heavens and Earth, they will certainly say: God (39:38) and Among His signs is the creation of the heavens and Earth, and the difference of your languages and colors (30:22), the creation of the heavens and Earth is presented as a proof of God's Existence and Unity. Conscious people who consider the creation of the heavens and Earth must confirm the Majestic Creator's existence. When asked who their creator is, they will answer: “God.”

In the First Station, we started from an atom and showed the stamp of Divine Unity on every object as far as the heavens and the stars. The Qur'an rejects partnership with God. This means that (since the universe is like a human being, for both are organisms whose parts work together and are interrelated), the Absolutely Powerful One, Who created the heavens and Earth in perfect order, must hold the amazing solar system in His Power's grasp.

Since that absolutely All-Powerful One holds the sun and its planets in His Power's grasp, managing it and regulating its movements, Earth must be in His Power's grasp and management. Given this, all of its creatures, which are its fruits and may be regarded as the goal of its existence, are in His Lordship's grasp (raising, administering, and sustaining). All creatures, spread over Earth singly or in groups and replaced after adorning it for a while, fill and empty Earth in a continuous cycle. As all of them are in the grasp of His Power and Knowledge and are managed and arranged according to the measure of His Justice and Wisdom, each member of each species, each of which is a well-designed and perfectly formed miniature of the universe, a pattern or specimen of its species, and a tiny index of the Book of the Universe, are in His grasp of Lordship, invention, raising, and management.

Given this, each living being's cells, corpuscles, limbs, and nerves are under His command, at His disposal, and move according to His laws. Lastly, particles or atoms, the essential building blocks constituting all creatures and their parts as well as being the means for their design and formation, are in His Power's grasp and His Knowledge's sphere. They move most regularly and perform perfect duties by His command, permission, and strength.

Every atom moves and functions by His law, permission, and command. Therefore, His Knowledge and Wisdom distinguish each face by making it unique. In addition, their sounds and tongues differ. Consider this verse that, in mentioning only the first and most universal link and the last and most individualized one, points to this chain of creation and the series of His signs in creation: Among His signs is the creation of the heavens and Earth, and the difference of your languages and colors. Indeed, in this are signs for those who know·(30:22).

Now we say: “O representative of those associating partners with God! These evidences are as strong as the chains of creation, which point to an Absolutely Powerful One and prove His Unity.”

Since the creation of the heavens and Earth shows an All-Powerful Maker and His boundless and infinitely perfect Power, He is absolutely independent of partners. While He has no need for them, why do you follow the dark way of associating partners with Him? As He has no partners in His Divinity, any partnership in His Lordship and creativity is impossible. The Power of the Maker of the universe and Earth is boundless and infinitely perfect, and everything is equal before it. If there were a partner, this would require that a limited power defeat a boundless and infinitely perfect power, or somehow limit it and infect it with incapacity. Such assertions are completely untenable.

There is no need for partners, and their supposed existence is inconceivable. Such claims are no more than forced and arbitrary judgments that cannot be substantiated by reason or logic. It is a principle of theology and methodology that any probability or possibility not arising from evidence cannot be considered, and that it does not injure conviction or certainty based on knowledge. For example, it is theoretically conceivable that Lake Eğridir might change into oil or grape juice boiled to a heavy syrup. But since this is a mere possibility raised on the basis of no circumstantial evidence, it does not harm our certainty that the lake is water.

Similarly, we have asked each part of the universe: from atoms to stars in the First Station, and from the creation of the heavens and Earth to unique faces in the Second Station. Each part testified to God's Oneness and shows the stamp of His Unity. Therefore there is no circumstantial sign upon which any partnership with God could be found. Given that this claim is forced, meaningless, and insubstantial, all such claims are clear nonsense and pure ignorance.

Question: Those who reject Divine Unity raise another objection: Everything depends on a cause and takes place according to the cycle of cause and effect. Since causality is apparent throughout the universe, causes must have a part in the creation and operation of things. If they have a part, they may be partners.

Answer: As required by Divine Will and Wisdom, and as the Divine Names tend to manifest themselves, results are dependent on causes. However, as is convincingly argued in the Risale-i Nur, causes have no creative effect. Here we add the following:

Conscious beings are the most effective causes in bringing about effects. Humanity, which has a free and most comprehensive willpower and a vast field in which to exercise it, is the most elevated conscious being. Speaking, thinking, and eating are the most apparent acts arising from our free will. They include well-ordered chains of events, but only one is directly connected to our free will. For example, out of all the processes related to eating and its becoming nourishment in cells, only chewing them depends on free will. Hunger, thirst, and appetite are external to free will, as is the body's independent working. In the case of speaking, free will is limited to inhaling and exhaling the air needed by the vocal organs to produce sounds. A word is like a seed in the mouth, becomes like a tree when uttered, produces millions of fruits that resemble that single word, and enters millions of ears. We can only imagine this multiplication, free will has nothing more to do with after it has been said.

If humanity, the most honored cause and agent, the freest in using will, has no part in creation, how can nature (e.g., inanimate objects, elements, plants, animals) have any real effect or part in creation? How can natural laws, which have no consciousness, will, or knowledge and only a nominal existence, originate such a miraculous system as the universe, the creation and operation of which require infinite knowledge, will, and power? How can they create a miraculous living, conscious, speaking, reasoning, thinking, and learning organism like a man or a woman?

Nature is only an envelope for the Lord's creatures, a tray for the All-Merciful One's gifts. The tray bearing the gift, the cloth in which it is wrapped, even the one who brings it, cannot be a partner in the king's sovereignty. One who does not understand this is blinded by delusion. In the same way, apparent causes and means have no part in Divine Lordship; their only duty is to worship.