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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Principles of the Shi’ite Creed Lesson 6: God Is One And Has No Partner The unity of God could be established in manifold manners but in this lesson we will present two of them. The First Argument The solidarity and coordination of the universe by itself is a strong evidence of God’s unity. Imagine that there is a five-hundred-page book before you which you have not yet read.

As yet you don’t know whether it is the work of the mind and pen of one author or each section of the book has been written by one separate writer. To establish this, you will have to read the entire book.

If you realize that the spirit of the contents, the style of the arguments and organization of the sentences are unified and harmonious, you will definitely conclude that the whole book is written by one writer, because if it were co-authored by two or more authors, you would have come up with a difference.

No matter how subtle, hidden, and insignificant that difference is, so that it won’t be discovered by laymen, it won’t evade the scrutiny of experts who will figure out that the book is not the work of one person. Given this introduction, we begin studying the universe which has been called “God’s book” by some scientists. We will consult the experts of every science pertinent to the world to see whether all the pages of this magnificent book of creation are unified and harmonious or not.

If it so, it will be the strongest testimony to the unity of its Creator. In fact, when we pose this question to the scientists of these disciplines, they reaffirm the unified order that is prevalent throughout the world and they contend that this world is founded upon a unified plan and its rules are so encompassing, comprehensive and harmonious that an experiment with a single creature would reveal a general rule that is valid everywhere.

All scientists, including biologists, physicists, and astronomers attest to the existence of this harmony and coordination. Could harmony and similarity be more obvious than this that the solar system and other gigantic systems are subject to the same rule to which the tiny atom is subject. As we all know, the revolution of the big planets around their orbits results from two forces, viz.