Who could give life to bones that have crumbled to dust?(36:78)

and, as a challenge, accuses the Absolutely Omnipotent One of impotence. It even debases the attributes of the Glorious Creator. It either rejects or denies or distorts what does not suit its interests and does not please its Pharaoh-like evil-commanding soul.

One group of philosophers, by calling Almighty God self-necessitating, denied Him choice. They rejected the endless testimony of all creation, which proves that He has choice. Glory be to God! Although all the beings in the universe from the smallest particles to the sun show that the Creator has choice, each with its own appointed individuality, order, wisdom, and measure, this blind philosophy refused to see it. Moreover, another group of philosophers said: “Divine knowledge is not concerned with insignificant matters,” [^14] and denied its awesome comprehensiveness, thus rejecting the veracious witnessing of all beings.

[^14]:See, al-Ghazālī, al-Munqidh min al-Ḍalāl, 46.

Furthermore, by attributing effects to causes, philosophy has granted nature the power to create. As has been definitely proved in the Twenty-Second Word, since philosophy does not see the evident stamp on everything signifying the Creator of All Things and assumes nature to be the originator, despite its being impotent, inanimate, unconscious, and blind and its apparent power being in the hands of chance and force which are also blind, it attributes to nature certain beings, each of which expresses thousands of instances of exalted wisdom and is like a missive from the Eternally Besought One.

In addition, the philosophers did not find the door to resurrection and the hereafter, which, as is proved in the Tenth Word, God Almighty with all of His names, and the universe with all of its truths, and the line of prophethood with all of its verifications, and the revealed books with all of their verses demonstrate. They therefore denied the resurrection and ascribed pre-eternity to spirits. You can deduce from these superstitions what their views on other matters would be. Indeed, the powers of evil have raised up the minds of atheistic philosophers as though with the beaks and talons of their ‘I’s and have dropped them in the valleys of misguidance. Thus, in the microcosm the ‘I’ is the idol, like those in the macrocosm such as nature.

Hence, he who rejects idols and believes in God has indeed taken hold of a support most unfailing, which shall never give way: for God is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.(2:256)