Astonishing activity in the universe.

....'' One of The wisdom in the constant and astonishing activity in the universe.

Everyone who is compassionate is happy at giving pleasure to others; and everyone who is kind is gratified at making others happy; everyone who is loving is gladdened by pleasing others who are worthy of being pleased; and everyone who is noble-hearted takes pleasure at making others happy; everyone who is just rejoices at upholding justice and at winning the gratitude of those whose rights are vindicated by punishing those who deserve it; and every skilful craftsman takes pride in exhibiting his work, at its functioning as he imagined it would function, and at its giving the desired results.

Thus, each of the above-mentioned principles is a fundamental rule which is in force throughout the universe and the world of mankind.

Three examples demonstrating that these rules function in the Divine Names have been explained in the Third Stopping Place of the Thirty-Second Word.

Since it is appropriate to write a summary of them at this point we say the following:

For example, an extremely kind, generous, munificent, noble-hearted person who embarks the poor and needy on a large ship, gratifies them with banquets and bounties and sails it in the seas around the world, himself being superior to them, will watch them happily, take pleasure at those needy people's gratitude, rejoice and be pleased at their taking pleasure, and feel proud.

If one who is merely like a distribution official takes such pleasure and delight at holding an insignificant banquet, then consider the following: the Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One embarks all animals and men and countless angels, jinn and spirit beings on the ship of the earth, which is a vessel of that All-Merciful One; He spreads the face of the earth before them as a dominical table laden with varieties of foods, and with delights and sustenance for all the senses; he causes those needy, thankful, grateful and happy creatures to sail the regions of the universe, and not only makes them happy in this world with all these bounties, but also makes each of those bounties a table in the unending banquets in the Paradises of the Eternal Realm.

It is therefore the meaning of dominicality alluded to by the Divine qualities arising from the thanks, gratitude, joy and delight of those creatures which look to the Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One, which we are powerless and also not permitted to express, like ?'holy pleasure,' ?'sacred pride,' and ?'hallowed delight' that necessitate this constant activity and ceaseless creativity.

And for example, if a skilful craftsman builds a gramophone which requires no records and it plays just as he wishes, how proud and delighted he will be; he will say to himself: "What wonders God willed!" If an insignificant piece of art in which there is no true creation engenders a feeling of such pride and pleasure in the craftsman's spirit, then consider the following:

The All-Wise Maker creates the totality of the universe as a Divine orchestra and wondrous workshop which strikes up and gives forth countless sorts of songs and hymns praises and glorification; He displays all the species, all the worlds, in the universe through a different craft and different miracles of art; and not only does He fashion many machines in the heads of animate creatures, each like a gramophone, camera or telegraph, but He also fashions in the heads of all human beings, not only a gramophone without records, a camera without a film, a telegraph without wires, but a machine twenty times more wonderful.

It is therefore meanings like ?'sacred pride' and ?'holy pleasure' and the exalted qualities of this sort which proceed from dominicality and arise from creating such machines, and their functioning in the required way and producing the desired results that necessitate this unceasing activity.

And for example, a just ruler takes pleasure and is gratified and feels proud at taking the part of the oppressed against tyrants in order to uphold justice, at protecting the poor against the wrongdoing of the powerful, and at giving to everyone his due.

Since this is a fundamental rule of rulership and justice, then consider the following:

The Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One, Who is the All-Wise Ruler and is Absolutely Just, bestows on all creatures and especially on animate ones the necessary conditions for life, which are known as ?'the rights of life;' and in order to preserve their lives, He grants them the necessary abilities and members; and He compassionately protects the weak from the evil of the powerful.

Therefore, the dominical qualities and sacred meanings, which we are powerless to express, that arise from this and from the execution of the mystery of justice, which in this world is total with regard to establishing justice for all animate beings and partial with regard to punishing wrongdoers, and especially that arise from the manifestation of supreme justice at the Supreme Tribunal of the Resurrection, necessitate the constant activity in the universe.

Thus, as these three examples show, since each of the Most Beautiful Names is the means for certain sacred Divine qualities in this unceasing activity, they require unceasing creativity.

And since the development, unfolding and blossoming of all abilities and faculties yield a joy, expansiveness and pleasure; and since on the performance and completion of a duty and on being released from it, everyone entrusted with such a duty experiences a great feeling of relief and gratitude; and since to receive many fruits from a single seed and to gain a hundredfold profit from a single thing is a most pleasurable trade, then most certainly the One Who causes the innumerable abilities of all creatures to unfold, after employing all creatures in valuable duties, will discharge them, but to a higher state.

That is to say, He raises elements to the level of minerals; minerals to plant life; plants to the level of animal life by means of sustenance; and animals to the high level of human life, which is conscious.

It may be understood then just how important are the sacred meanings and Divine dominicality arising from the constant activity and dominical creativity which, on the demise of their external existences, cause all animate creatures to leave behind them multiple existences taken from them, like their spirits, essences, identities, forms, existences in the Worlds of Similitudes, Knowledge, and the Unseen, the sheaths of their spirits, and the bodies with which to travel around the stars, all of which are charged with duties in their places....''

Qur'anic interpretation
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
30.flash

Based on these verses :
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate…. In Whose hand is the dominion of all things. 36:83* To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth. 39:63; 42:12* And there is nothing but with Us are its treasuries. 15:21* There is not a moving creature but He has grasp of its forelock. Qur'an, 11:56.