THE FIRST TRUTH: the truth of Opening up

 

 

That is, innumerable varied and distinct forms everywhere are opened up simultaneously from a single simple substance by a single Act, through the manifestation of the Name the All-Opening. Through the manifestation of this Name, God’s Power of origination has opened up in the garden of the universe innumerable orderly forms like flowers, bestowing a distinct identity on each of them. Similarly, in even more miraculous fashion, He has given each of the hundreds of thousands of living species in the garden of the earth its particular form, which is symmetrical, adorned and full of artistry and wisdom.

As indicated in the verses,

He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, one act and phase of creation after another, in three veils of darkness. This is God, your true Lord (Who creates and sustains you): To Him belongs the sovereignty. There is no deity but He. How, then, are you turned away (to misleading ways)? (39:6)

Surely God—nothing whatever on the earth and in the heaven is hidden from Him. It is He Who fashions you in the wombs as He wills. There is no deity but He, the All-Glorious with irresistible might, the All-Wise. (3:5–6)

the most powerful proof of Divine Unity and the most remarkable miracle of Divine Power is God’s opening up of forms. For this reason, the truth of the opening up of forms is established and expounded repeatedly in different ways in various parts of the Risale-i Nur, particularly in The Sixth and Seventh Steps of The First Chapter of The Second Station of this treatise. Referring the reader to those sections, we say here only this:

As demonstrated by extensive research undertaken by scholars of botany and zoology, the opening up of forms is so comprehensive and artistic an act that none other than a Single, Unique and Absolutely Powerful One, able to see and do all things in all things, could achieve it. For this act of opening up of forms entails infinite wisdom, attention and comprehensiveness that could exist only in an infinite Power Which is present at all times and in all places. This Power, in turn, can be found only in the Unique Being Who administers the whole universe.

As is shown in the above-mentioned verses, God’s Attribute of Opening, expressed in the measured, distinct and orderly opening and creation of the forms of people within three veils of darkness in their mother’s wombs, without any error, confusion, or mistake is a most powerful proof of God’s Unity. Similarly, the opening up of the forms of all human beings, animals, and plants all over the earth with the same Power, the same Wisdom and the same Artistry offers a most powerful proof of God’s Oneness, allowing no room for any partnership with God. Just as the nineteen truths presented in The First Chapter in the form of nineteen steps bear witness to the necessary Existence of God and attest to the Existence of the Creator through their own existence, they also bear witness to His Unity through their comprehensiveness.

Our traveler then witnesses the second truth in the third mansion:

 

Said Nursi