A Decisive Answer to an Important Question

One group of the people of misguidance say that the One Who changes and transforms the universe with this constant activity must Himself be subject to change and alteration.

T h e A n s w e r : God forbid! A hundred thousand times, God forbid! The fact that mirrors on the ground change demonstrates not that the sun in the sky changes but on the contrary that its manifestations are being renewed. Moreover, change and alteration are impossible in the Most Pure and Holy Essence, Who is pre-eternal, post-eternal, sempiternal, in every respect absolutely perfect and absolutely self-sufficient, totally free of, detached from and beyond matter, space, restriction, and contingency. Change in the universe points not to His changing but to his lack of change and alteration. Because, one who constantly causes change and causes numerous things to move must himself be unchanging and not move.

For example, if you spin a large number of globes and balls which have each been tied to a piece of string and cause them all to move unceasingly within an order, then it is necessary for you to remain in one place and not to change it or move, for if you did move, it would spoil the order.