Second Station

The Second Station

of the Twenty-Second Word

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

God is the Creator of all things, and He is the Guardian and Disposer of all affairs. ∗ To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth.(39:62) ∗ So glory to Him in Whose hands is the sovereignty of all things, and to Him will you all be brought back.(36:83) ∗ And there is not a thing but its [sources and] treasures [inexhaustible] are with Us; but We only send down thereof in due and ascertainable measures.(15:21) ∗ There is not a moving creature, but He has grasp of its forelock. Verily it is my Sustainer that is on a Straight Path.(11:56)

Introduction

Introduction

In my treatise entitled Katre, which is about belief in God, the principal pole of the pillars of belief, I explained in brief the evidence of and testimony to Almighty God’s existence and unity furnished by all beings through fifty-five tongues. Also, in the treatise Nokta I mentioned four universal proofs out of the evidences of Almighty God’s existence and unity each of which has the strength of a thousand proofs. Moreover, since I have discussed in around twelve of my Arabic treatises hundreds of decisive proofs demonstrating Almighty God’s necessary existence and unity, I shall be content with those and not now undertake any profound investigations. Here, I shall try only to explain in this Twenty-Second Word, twelve Flashes from the sun of belief in God which I have written briefly in other places in the Risale-i Nur.

First Flash

FIRST FLASH

The affirmation of divine unity is of two sorts. For example, if the goods of a rich man arrive in a market or a town, there are two ways in which one may know they are his. Briefly and simply, one of them is as with ordinary people: “No one apart from him is capable of owning this vast amount of goods.” However, much of it may be stolen when under the