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confused, is a stamp of the Single One of Unity as brilliant as the sun which can in no way be doubted. Who other than one possessing boundless power, all-encompassing knowledge, and infinite wisdom could have any part in this administration, which is wondrous to the utmost degree. For if a person incapable of administering and raising all together these species and nations, which are one within the other, interferes with any of them, he will throw the lot into disorder. Whereas according to the meaning of,

So turn your vision again, do you see any flaw?(67:3)

there is no sign of confusion. That means not even a finger can interfere.

Fourth Window

Fourth Window

This is the acceptability of the supplications offered through the tongue of latent ability by all seeds, and through the tongue of innate need by all animals, and through the tongue of exigency by the desperate.

Yes, just as all these innumerable supplications are observedly accepted and responded to, so in a large measure do they in their entirety self-evidently indicate and point to an All-Compassionate and Generous Creator, the Answerer of Prayer.

Fifth Window

Fifth Window

We see that things and particularly living beings come into existence of a sudden, instantaneously. But, while things that appear suddenly out of a simple substance should be simple, formless, and without art, they are created with an art and beauty requiring much skill and many materials, they are decorated with painstaking embroideries requiring much time, and adorned with wonderful arts requiring many tools. Thus, just as each of these instantaneous, wondrous arts and beautiful combinations indicates the necessary existence of an All-Wise Creator and the unity of His dominicality, so in their totality do they show brilliantly an infinitely Powerful, infinitely Wise Necessarily Existent One.

So now, O stupefied denier! How can you explain this? With nature, which is unconscious, impotent, and ignorant like you? Or do you want to make an infinite mistake and call that All-Holy Maker “nature,” and on the pretext of naming Him that, attribute the miracles of His power to it and perpetrate an impossibility compounded a thousand times over?

4–6 October 2026 · Istanbul

13th International Bediuzzaman Symposium

Visit the symposium website for the programme, papers and registration.