Allah is the cause
Innallaha ya’-ti bi shamsi minal mashriqi:
“Behold! Allah causes the sun to rise in the East.”
(The Qur’an 2.258)
“Allah is the cause of all causes”, Shree Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said.
(Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya-lila, 18.193)
Here Mahaprabhu explains that Allah is the original cause of all causes. Each effect has its cause, which in turn has its own cause. In this way, if we were to move backwards from cause to cause, we will naturally arrive at the supreme cause. This supreme cause is Allah. Everything originates from Him. But He Himself is beginningless. Allah has no beginning. Therefore He has no cause. He Himself is the primeval cause of all causes.
Thus it is stated in the Holy Qur’an:
Allazi ja-’aia lakumul-’arza fira-shan-wasama bina / wa ‘anzala minas-sama-’i ma-anfa-’akh-raja bihi mina samarati rizgal-lakum: “Who has made the earth a resting place for you and the sky a canopy, and cause water to pour from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you.” (2.22)
Iz qala ‘Ibrahimu Rabbi-yal-lazi yuhyi wa yumitu. . . . Innallaha ya’-ti bi shamsi minal mashriqi: “Abraham said: My Lord is He Who gives life and causes death. . . . Behold! Allah causes the sun to rise in the East.” (2.258)
Tulijul-layla fi-nahari wa tulijun-nahara fi-layl / wa tukhrijul-haya minal-mayiti wa tukhrijul-mayita minal-hayi wa tarzuqu mantasha-’u bi-gayri hisab: “You (Allah) cause the night to pass into the day and You cause the day to pass into the night. And You bring forth the living from the dead, and You bring forth the dead from the living. And You give sustenance to whom You choose, without measure.” (3.27)
From all these quotations we can easily understand that Allah is the supreme cause of all causes. But we can see today mans blunt senses, his lack of divine knowledge and spiritual understanding leads him to falsely think he is the cause of all things around him. Man thinks, “I have created my son”. But who is the cause of the parents that cause the son? Allah is the primal cause, the cause of everything. Man thinks, “I have created this nice house with my own energy.” But who is the cause of the five fundamental elements – earth, water, fire, air, ether – which form the ingredients for every material construction, whether it be a single brick for your house, a metal for your spaceships or the complex bodily form for your soul? Allah is the original cause of the material manifestation and this material manifestation is not independent from Him. He has no cause, for He is the eternal cause of all causes, transcendental to this material manifestation. He is the ultimate dative, causative and accommodating cause of all causes. When any human can produces anything starting with zero then we can say he is the cause. The scientist today even with the fundamental ingredients can not produce even a single blade of grass what to speak of human life. Allah is the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. The Lord is ultimately the cause of all animation in the material world. He is the original cause. Effects of the original cause become the causes of other effects and thus everything, either permanent or temporary, is working as cause and effect. Because the Lord is the primeval cause of all persons and energies, He is called the cause of all causes. He is the principle primeval cause of all causes and effects. There is no cause for all phenomenal activities except Him, the Supreme Lord. Although, He is without a cause.
