Hadith 53

point upon their occurrences from rotations of the spheres with whatever is in it, and these are seven spheres, and the earth and the ones upon it are moving, and the turning of the times, and interchanging of the time, and the newly occurring events which occur in the world, from the increase and the decrease, and death, and afflictions, and the restlessness of the soul to the calmness, (point) that there is a Maker for it and a manager. Can’t you see the sweet becoming sour, and the sweet (becoming) bitter, and the new (becoming) decayed, and all are to change and perishing? And he (the narrator) continued the Hadeeth until he said, ‘The atheist said, ‘And the one who claims that Allah-azwj did not cease to be and with Him-azwj was harmful clay. So He‑azwj could not Separate from it except by mixing it with it and inserting it into it. So, from that clay, He-azwj Created the things’. He-asws said: ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj! How frustrated is a god who is described as being with the power not being able to separate from the clay! If the clay was alive, eternal, there would be two gods, both ancient. So, they mixed and managed the word from themselves. It that was like that, then from where did the death come, and the annihilation? And if the clay was dead, so there is no lasting for the dead along with the eternal, the ancient, and the dead is such, the living cannot come from it. These are the words of Al-Daysaniya, the staunchest of the atheists in words’. Then he-asws said in a place from this Hadeeth: ‘If it was ancient, eternal, it would not change from a state to a state, and the eternal cannot be changed by the days, nor can the annihilation come upon it’’. [58]