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The Nourisher being light and its relationship with God's statement about great energy(Translation...kimiya Mehman navaz)

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With salaams and sincere thanks to respected professor, Mr. Mousavi. I have a question which has engaged my mind for a while. Is it correct to consider the existence of God Almighty as energy? In the holy Quran, God has introduced Himself as light and existence giver. Is the equivalence of divine light with light which is beyond human imagination correct?
Thanking you sincerely for your reply
Translation...kimiya Mehman navaz
Date of Question: 25 Apr 2017
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Responsive Name: Esteemed Philasopher Dr.Mousavi
Date of Answer: 25 Apr 2017

At the beginning we should know that when God says in the holy Quran, “Allahu Nūru As-Samāwāti Wa Al-'Arđi” which means “God is the Light of the heavens and the earth,” firstly, everyone cannot reach the heart of the verses of the Quran because each verse of the Quran has an apparent meaning (zahir) and an inner meaning (batin) and every batn has 70 batn. The only person who can reach this endless ocean is one who has worked hard deep into divine science, philosophy, and theosophy.

Nevertheless, we shall answer according to our capacity. What is light itself? It is a wave. However, whether light is wave or particles, some scientists have defined it as particles, suspended material and mass, and hence it occupies space; but certainly, God Almighty should not occupy space and is not material because material is imperfect and compound but God Almighty is Basīṭ al-Ḥaqīqa (The Uncompounded Reality). He is the creator of light, all creatures, and visible and invisible beings. Therefore, the main idea of the verse which says God Almighty is the creator of light is that God illuminates, not that God is light.

However, in order to answer the question of whether or not Wajib al-Wujud (Necessary Existence) is energy, we shall first discuss the term energy. Energy means force, power, and strength. For instance, a battery causes the hands of a clock to move and generate energy or pneumatic tank produces electricity. If wind does not exist, energy is not generated. The sun’s energy is produced from stars. In reality, any work done on a substance, will cause the equivalent amount of energy to be added to the receiver and the doer’s energy will reduce. Therefore, energy itself does not have originality because it is completely dependent in being produced. Furthermore, if it were original, it should not increase and decrease. Thus, we conclude that energies can neither be Basīṭ al-Ḥaqīqa (The Uncompounded Reality) nor like Basīṭ al-Ḥaqīqa, because they are absolutely needy.

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