Allah The Exalted — Page 79
Allah the Exalted 79 ties in the elements and the inventors are not able to cre- ate those powers and capacities. Thus unless God is accepted as the inventor of all the capacities and powers of the particles of the universe and of the souls His God- head is not established. In that case, He would rank only as a builder or a carpenter or a smith or a potter and no more. This is obvious and irrefutable. [Nasīm-e-Da'wat, Rūķānī Khazā'in, Vol. 19, pp. 383-384] We bear witness with our full faith and complete under- standing that the contention of the Arya Samājists that souls and particles with all their capacities are eternal and self-existing and uncreated is false. This idea is disrup- tive of the relationship between God and His creatures. It is a new and repulsive doctrine which has been put forth by Pandit Dyānand. We are not aware to what degree this doctrine is drawn from the Vedas. What we contend is that this principle which has been expounded by the Āryā Samājists is not acceptable to sane reason after full un- derstanding and reflection and pondering. The principle of Sanatan Dharam lies in exact contrast. Although it has been disfigured by the exaggerations of Vedānta and the Vedāntists, and is exposed to a number of objections, nevertheless it does have a spark of truth in it. If their doctrine is simplified it amounts only to this that everything has been created by Parmeshwar. In such case, all doubts are removed and one has to confess that according to the principles of Sanatan Dharam the doc- trine of the Vedas also is that all souls and particles of bodies and their powers and qualities are from God. [Nasim-e-Da'wat, Rūķānī Khazā'in, Vol. 19, p. 387] The Holy Qur'an has taught us that man together with his soul and all his capacities and every particle of his body,