This extraordinary ignorance  requires endless  impossibilities because ether  is matter that is unconscious, lifeless and without will and is finer than the  matter  of which particles consist,  which drowns  the  materialists,  and  is denser than the index of primordial matter into which the ancient philosophers thrust themselves. To attribute to this matter, which may be fragmented and divided without limit and is equipped with the qualities and duties of being passive and the abilit y to transmit – to attribute to its minute particles, which are far minuter than particles of other matter, the actions and works  that exist through a will and power that sees, knows, and directs all things in all things is  mistaken to the number of particles of ether.

The act of creation apparent in beings is such that it demonstrates it proceeds from a power and will which sees and knows most things, the whole universe even, in each thing particularly if it is animate, and which recognizes and secures the animate creature’s relationship with the universe; it thus demonstrates that it cannot be the act of causes, which are material and are not all-encompassing. Through the meaning of Self-Subsistence, a particular  creative act bears a mighty meaning that points to its being directly the act of the Creator of the universe. For example, an act pertaining to the creation of a bee demonstrates that it is peculiar to the Creator of the universe in two respects.

First Respect: The fact that all the other bees throughout the world resembling that  particular  bee manifest the same  act  at  the  same time  demonstrates that  the particular and individual act is the tip of a comprehensive act which embraces the face of the earth. In which case, whoever the author and owner of that vast act  is, he must be the author of the particular act.

Second Respect: In order to be the author of the action directed towards the creation of the bee in question, a power and will are necessary that are vast enough to know and secure  the conditions for the life of the bee, and its members,  and its relationship with the universe. Therefore, the one who performs the particular action can only perform it thus perfectly by having authority over most of the universe.

Hence the most particular and insignificant action demonstrates in two respects

that it is peculiar to the Creator of all things.

The most remarkable and surprising thing is this: the Necessarily Existent One possesses  necessity, which is the firmest level of existence; absolute isolation from matter, which is  the most immutable degree of existence; absolute freedom from space, which is the state of existence furthest from cessation; and unity, which is the soundest quality of existence and the one remotest from change and non-existence. And  yet they attribute pre-eternity and  everlastingness, which are the Necessarily Existent One’s most particular qualities and are  necessary and essential to Him, to things like ether and particles, which are matter that is material, unbounded and numerous,  is  the  least  stable  level  of  existence  and  the  least  tangible,  the  most changing  and the most varying and the most dispersed through space; they ascribe pre-eternity to them and fancy them to be pre-eternal; and some of them even suppose that it is out of them that the  divine works arise. It has been demonstrated through cogent arguments in many places in the Risale-i Nur how contrary to truth and reality, how unreasonable and absurd, is this idea.