The Second Station
of the Twenty-Second Word
Introduction
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
God is the Creator of all things, and He is the Guardian and Disposer of all affairs. * To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth.1 * So glory to Him in Whose hands is the sovereignty of all things, and to Him will you all be brought back.2 * And there is not a thing but its [sources and] treasures [inexhaustible] are with Us; but We only send down thereof in due and ascertainable measures.3 * There is not a moving creature, but He has grasp of its forelock. Verily it is my Sustainer that is on a Straight Path.4
In my treatise entitled Katre, which is about belief in God, the principal pole of the pillars of belief, I explained in brief the evidence to Almighty God’s existence and unity given by all beings through fifty-five tongues. Also, in the treatise Nokta, I mentioned four universal proofs out of the evidences of Almighty God’s existence and unity each of which has the strength of a thousand proofs. Moreover, since I have discussed in around twelve of my Arabic treatises hundreds of decisive proofs demonstrating Almighty God’s necessary existence and unity, I shall be content with those and not now undertake any profound investigations. Only, I shall try to explain in this Twenty-Second Word, twelve ‘Flashes’ from the sun of belief in God which I have written briefly in other places in the Risale-i Nur.
FIRST FLASH
The affirmation of Divine unity is of two sorts. For example, if the goods of a rich man arrive in a market or a town, there are two ways in which one
Qur’an, 39:62.
Qur’an, 36:83.
Qur’an, 15:21.
Qur’an, 11:56.