Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 219
FOOTNOTE NUMBER ELEVEN عیب نماید هنرش در نظر چشم بد اندیش که بر کنده باد 219 The eye of the ill-wisher, wherever it lands, Is prone to see evil even where there is good. Now I reiterate the subject and proceed to expound what Allah the Exalted has set out in this blessed sürah from the attribute of رب العلمين ]Rabbul-'alamin] to ملك يوم الدين Māliku-Yaumid-Din]. As expounded in the Holy Quran, they comprise four grand verities. I deem it appro- priate to describe them in detail here. The first verity is that God Almighty is رب العلمين Rabbul-'ālamīn[. This means that God is the Lord and Owner of whatever is present in the universe and that whatever has appeared in the universe, is seen or felt, or is comprehended by the intellect, is nothing but His crea- tion and nothing else possesses true existence except the Exalted Maker Himself. In short, the universe, together with all of its components, is created and is a creation of God. There is nothing among the components of the universe that is not the creation of God. Through His perfect rubūbiyyat, God Almighty controls and rules over every particle of the universe, and His rubūbiyyat is in operation at every moment. It is not that God Almighty created the universe and then abdicated its admin- istration, consigning it to the laws of nature in such a manner that He no longer intervenes in anything; and therefore, just as a machine becomes entirely unconnected from its maker after it has been man- ufactured, the created objects are [God-forbid] no longer connected with the True Maker. On the contrary رب العلمين Rabbul-'alamin] is constantly showering His perfect rubūbiyyat over the entire universe and the rain of His rubūbiyyat is falling perpetually upon the whole universe. At no time is the universe deprived of the bestowal of His grace. Even after the creation of the universe, that Source of Grace is truly needed every moment, without interruption, as if He had not yet created anything. As the world depended upon His rubūbiyyat for its