tree and cite a number of apparent causes. They reduce to nothing a huge dominical act worked through the Creator’s will and wisdom. Sometimes they attach a scientific term to a profound, unknowable, and significant truth which has purposes in a thousand respects, as though by using the term it has been understood. Whereas it is merely made commonplace, and without purpose, wisdom, or meaning.

So, come and see the innumerable degrees of stupidity and foolishness! They attach a name to a truth so profound and broad and unknown it could be completely understood only if it and its purposes and instances of wisdom were described in a hundred pages. As though it were something obvious they say: “It is this.” For example, “It is some substance in the sun clashing with electricity.” Furthermore, they ascribe a particular and intentional dominical event to one of the natural laws, which are each the titles of universal, all-encompassing will and universal sovereignty, and are known as divine laws. By doing this they sever its connection with divine will and choice, then refer it to chance and nature. They display an ignorance more profound than that of Abu Jahl. It is a rebellious foolishness like attributing the victorious battle of an individual soldier or a battalion to military regulations and discipline, so cutting its connection with the commander, king, government, and purposeful action.

Similarly, if a wonder-working craftsman produces a hundred okkas [^3] of various foodstuffs and a hundred yards of varying cloths from a chip of wood the size of fingernail, like the creation of a fruitbearing tree from a seed, and someone points to the chip of wood and declares that these things have come into being out of it “naturally” and “by chance,” so reducing to nothing the craftsman’s wondrous arts and skills, what utter lunacy it would be. It is exactly the same as that.

[^3]:1 okka = approx. 2.8 lbs. or 1,300 grammes.

Seventh Question: What should one understand from this terrestrial event happening to the Muslim people of this country and its being aimed at them? And why are the areas of Erzincan and Izmir affected most?

The Answer: As is indicated by many signs, such as the event occurring during a hard winter in the dark of night in severely cold weather, and its restriction to a region where due respect is not paid to the month of Ramadan, and the earthquakes continuing mildly in order to arouse the neglectful – it suggests that the earthquakes are aimed at and look to the believers and are shaking the earth in order to warn them to perform the prayers and their supplications, and the earth itself is shaking. There are two reasons for places like unfortunate Erzincan being shaken more than other places.