First Proof: The wondrousness and manifestation of oneness in the creation and living of trees.
FIRST PROOF
Come and look carefully at everything around you: a hidden hand is working within all these works. For something which has not even an ounce of strength, (1) something as small as a seed, is raising a load of thousands of pounds. And something that does not have even a particle of consciousness (2) is performing extremely wise and purposeful works. That means they are not working by themselves, but that a hidden possessor of power is causing them to work. If they were independent, it would necessitate all the works which we see everywhere in this land being miracles and everything to be a wonder-working marvel. And that is nonsense.
(1) This alludes to seeds, which bear trees on their heads.
(2) This indicates delicate plants like the grapevine, which themselves cannot climb or bear the weight of fruits, so throwing their delicate arms around other plants or trees and winding themselves around them, they load themselves onto them.
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- Second Proof: The wondrousness and manifestation of oneness in the creation of seeds and living beings.
- The Twenty-Second Word: The works of art in the universe which inform about Allah; the ways of making out the artistic delicacies and the manifestation of oneness in them and gaining investigative belief (tahqiq).
- Seventh Proof: The observable wondrousness and manifestation of oneness in the cooperation and solidarity among living beings.
- Fifth Proof: The indication of the work of art on fruit which is the result of a tree and man who is the result of the universe to an artist.
- Third Proof: The wondrousness and manifestation of oneness in the creation and way of living of human beings and animals.
- What are the proofs of God's existence?
- Sixth Proof: The wondrousness and oneness and manifestation of power in the changing events of the seasons of spring and summer.
- The Twenty-Second Word: First Station: A simile that attracts attention to the wondrousness behind the ordinary events that take place in the world.
- Why were the heavens and earth created in six days?
- Gleams: Flowers from the Seeds of Reality. A short ‘Mathnawi’ and collection on the subject of belief for the Risale-i Nur students.
