Now we can understand the condition of the created things of this world...

Now we can understand the condition of the created things of this world, which have come into existence from nothing and are the creation of God. Are these, at every moment, in need of their creator? Some people may think that the created things of this world, after their creation, do not stand in need of their creator for their continued existence. However this is a completely erroneous concept.

Because the things in the world are the effects and creations of God and are identical with the imagined forms, which we ourselves can construct in imaginations, in that at every moment they need the One who created them in order to continue existing. The better to understand this, imagine in your mind a human figure, speaking, walking and working according to his will. Does this figure have any independence?

Clearly his existence is due to you, for if you cease to want him to exist, he will be annihilated and returned to nothingness. This is the condition of the entire universe of creation, which is completely from God, created by Him, and in no way independent. It is always in need of God. Also, if God ceased to will its existence, it would return to nothingness. Allah has said in the Holy Qur’an: “O men, you are the ones that have need of Allah, He is the All sufficient. The All laudable.

If He will, He can put you away and bring a new creation.” (S. 35: V.15-16) This is a subject to which Islam directs the attention of its followers.

For example, it is instructed that in prayer (salat) when one rises one should say bi hawli'l-lahi wa quwwatihi aqumu wa aq'ud - “With the power of Allah I do stand up and sit down.' In truth, if we realize that we have no independence from God, and that it is only He Who has created us thinking and willing creatures to strive in the way of happiness, and that it is only He Whose all-embracing Love encompasses us.

Therefore we prostrate before Him and say subhana rabbi al-a'la wa bi hamdah – Glory be to my Supreme Lord and Praise be to Him.” Questions Is an airplane independent of its manufacturer? What will happen if the manufacturer abandons the airplane? Will it cease to exist due to abandonment? How would one make such a finely built device to cease existing? What is the difference between a real and a make belief object? When a make belief object cease to exist?

What is the similarity between a make belief object and things that the Creator has made? Why do the creatures need the creator all the time?