The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times, Issue #22, September 2014 | Page 27

this to be of nature, then this is the creation calling out that it is the
Wise Creator’s.
From the ancient nations, there were some people who denied the
divine will and management in things and claimed that things came
into existence by accident and by chance. They took some signs which
were unlike the usual, such as when one was born with a finger less or
more or when one was born disfigured, as evidence showing that things
were not under will and management but by accidents as they
happened.
Aristotle refuted that by saying: that which comes into being by
accident and chance is something that comes one time due to certain
factors in nature making something unusual and not like the natural
matters that happen in one form continually and successively.
Oh Mufaddal, you see the different species of animals following a
regular pattern and having identical shapes. For instance, a human
infant when born has two hands, two legs with five fingers or toes in
each limb. But sometimes, as for one who is