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The Sun’s Motion Is For Gravity, And Gravity Makes Stable the Solar System

The Sun’s Motion Is For Gravity,

And Gravity Makes Stable the Solar System

The sun is a fruit-bearing tree; it shakes itself so that the planets fall not, its fruits.

If it rested in silence, the attraction would cease; and they would weep through space, its ecstatics.

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Small Things Are Tied To Big Things

Small Things Are Tied To Big Things

Certainly, the one who created the mosquito created both the sun and the Milky Way;

And the one who ordered the flea’s stomach clearly set in order the solar system;

While the one who gave sight to the eye and need to the stomach, definitely painted the sky’s eye with light and spread a table of foods over the face of the earth.

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There Is a Miraculousness in the Order of the Universe

There Is a Miraculousness in the Order of the Universe

See, there is a miraculousness in the writing of the universe; if to suppose the impossible all natural causes were effective agents possessing will,

In utter impotence they would prostrate before its miraculousness, conforming to it and declaring:

“Glory be to You! We have no power! It is You Who is the All-Glorious Pre-Eternal Possessor of Power, O our Sustainer!”

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Everything is Equal Before Divine Power

Everything is Equal Before Divine Power

Your creation and your resurrection are but as a single soul.(31:28)

Divine power is essential, inherent; impotence cannot impinge on it.

There can be no degrees in it, obstacles cannot intervene in it. For power, there is no difference between universal and particular;

For everything is tied to everything else; one who cannot make everything can make nothing.

4–6 October 2026 · Istanbul

13th International Bediuzzaman Symposium

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