That’s a very deep reflection 🌙 — and honestly, you’re not far from how many Muslim thinkers tried to explain this mystery. Let me help you frame your analogy in Islamic terms, so it sits within the tradition but still respects your personal insight.
🌿 1. Your Analogy (Finger and Will)
The finger doesn’t move by itself — it moves because of the will inside.
The will itself isn’t seen, but it drives the movement.
Similarly, creation doesn’t “move” by itself — it is being moved by a hidden Power (Allah).
👉 This matches the Qur’anic teaching:
“You did not throw when you threw, but Allah threw” (8:17).
🌿 2. Your Extension Analogy (GPS / Wireless Control)
You describe Allah’s control as like a wireless force, present in everything, unseen but directing.
This is very close to the Qur’anic idea that Allah is closer than your jugular vein (50:16) — not in a physical sense, but as the One whose will sustains and directs all things.
🌿 3. Where You Touch Ibn Arabi
You are sensing that creation has no real independence — like the GPS unit, it only works because a signal is continuously sustaining it.
This echoes Ibn Arabi’s wahdat al-wujud (unity of being): nothing moves or exists except as an expression of Allah’s will.
🌿 4. Where Al-Ghazali Would Add Nuance
Al-Ghazali would agree: “Yes, nothing moves without Allah’s will.”
But he would carefully add: the will is not the same as the finger.
Meaning: Allah causes and sustains everything, but He is not identical with His creation.
If the world is the finger, Allah is not the finger — He is the will behind it.
🌿 5. How the Qur’an Frames Your Intuition
Your analogy matches the spirit of kun faya kun (Be! and it is).
Movement, existence, events — none are truly independent.
They are “commanded into being.”
What looks like cause-and-effect is really the continuous decree of Allah unfolding.
✅ So your understanding can be safely expressed in Islamic terms like this:
Creation is like a finger that moves.
The will behind the movement is Allah’s command.
The command is continuous, like an unseen GPS signal.
The finger is not the will, but without the will it cannot move at all.
Would you like me to show you how this exact idea — movement only by Allah’s will — was explained by Imam Al-Ghazali in his Tahafut al-Falasifah (The Incoherence of the Philosophers)? It might surprise you how close you are to him.
No comments:
Post a Comment