PRECIS:
I suggest: not infinite will, but infinitesimally spaced.
Additionally: consider Al Ghayb and Verse of Light
COSMOS AS FILM REEL:
Each frame is the universe afresh. Natural laws are enacted without true fluidity, God creates each instant, frames aren’t contingent on each other.
EMANATIONS:
Angel Gabriel / Jibril (peace be upon him) is the First Intelligence / Emanation as per Neoplatonism.
Jibril is the Niche in the Verse of Light (Qur’an 24:35, below). Note: the Niche may instead be the Footstool (Kursiyy) of God mentioned in Qur’an 2:255 so, First Intellect may actually be downstream of the Logos.
ISLAMIC PRECEPTS TO SATISFY:
==> Allah says “Be!” and it is:
2:117 “… When He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is.”
==> Jesus (peace be upon him) was a Word from Allah - directly spliced into the storyline without continuity / biological conception:
3:45 “… O Mary! Lo! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from him …”
3:47 “… How can I have a child when no mortal hath touched me? … If He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is.”
Also 3:59 etc
==> No real continuity, Allah makes every frame e.g. fire would by natural law have burned Ibrahim (peace be upon him) but Allah stopped it:
21:69
==> Allah created beginning of mankind & everything:
32:7 “… He began the creation of man from clay;”
==> Allah creates individual babies per natural law, Cosmic continuity:
32:8
===> Allah directly involved with mankind every instant:
50:16 “… We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.”
==> Allah created with Truth (l infer: Logic, then Reason, then Justice - implying everything exists due to an active, discerning intellect - it selects from potential, to actualise one thing to the exclusion of its infinite variant forms):
15:85 “We created not the heavens and the earth and all that is between them save with truth”
==> The Verse of Light (perhaps describes the Logos, the Lamp, through which the Cosmos plays out as a projector plays a movie):
24:35 “Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth.
The similitude of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp.
The lamp is in a glass.
The glass is as it were a shining star.
(This lamp is) kindled from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the East nor of the West,
whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself) though no fire touched it.
Light upon light.”
{ SOMEWHAT SPECULATIVE: ===> Two speeds of light, implying at least two realms, sublunar and heavenly:
The Qur’an encodes two values for light speed as the speed of angels (beings of light):
32:5 - Distance moon travels in 1,000 lunar years divided by time in 1 day = c (quite precise)
70:4 - Distance in 50,000 lunar years divided by 1 day = 50c
These speeds could relate to how time flows in two realms: sublunar, and heavenly i.e. up to the Logos but NOT within Godhead (which has an infinitely high speed limit) }
==> The 99 Names of Allah found in Qur’an e.g.:
“Al Hayy ul Qayyum” in Ayat al Kursiyy (Qur’an 2:255) means Allah is Ever-Living i.e. he is always actual
===> Inscrutability of Al Ghayb (The Unseen) inc. the Mind of God & Film Reel that is the Preserved Tablets:
6:59 “… the keys of the Invisible. None but He knoweth them … Not a leaf falleth but He knoweth it … in a clear record.”
===> Predestination (Qadr):
6:59 among many
===> Free Will (despite Qadr):
2:286 “… reward for that which he has earned … punished for that which he has earned.”
===> Du’a (begging God) can change Qadr i.e. the film reel can get stuff spliced out, the entire storyline can be altered “on the fly”:
“Nothing repels decree except supplication, and nothing increases life-span except righteousness.” (hadith: Tirmidhi 2139, graded Hasan).
SYNTHESIS:
THE GODHEAD, TIME IS BORN:
- Infinite Potential, where the archetypes reside - none actualised
- Infinite Actual, which is infinite energy (Allah is called Al Qadir, the Power, All-Powerful). This sets a fundamental timeline because energy has frequency, f=1/t . If f=infinity then we have a virtually timeless state nonetheless.
- The Mind of God
THE MIND OF GOD:
The Mind of God could exist as mediator between infinite potential and infinite actual
It either selects ad lib from infinite alreaady-actualised forms within Infinite Actual,
… or creates specific forms ad lib by knitting Infinite Actual energy, with Infinite Potential archetypes.
Either way, it is selective, and must lack nothing. It can act virtually instantly if Infinite Actual has infinite frequency.
LEAVING THE GODHEAD:
An illusion, thought, Niche (24:35), is formed like a virtual machine in computing, within Godhead.
Forms from the Godhead - e.g. the entire movie reel of the Cosmos - enter the Niche, translating as 2D waveforms entering in all directions, coalescing as a Lamp in the centre of the Niche, thus visible light begins and the Cosmos plays out as a lightshow. The Lamp processed the format into visible light.
The glass of the lamp diffracts, distorts the light, imparting nuances e.g. the EM spectrum. Either the Lamp or Lamp+glass is the Logos. Beyond this, light travels at speed c. Prior to this, light is 50c. The journey inverts from heading inward within the Niche, to appearing to head outward into sublunar reality.
Then further Intellects eventually give us our world replete with elementary particles, matter, imperfections. Unsure how close to the Mind of God the Quantum world is, it will have been heavily processed by Intelligences by this endpoint.
EXAMPLES OF CREATION:
- The initial injection of the Waveform into the Niche = the entire history of the Cosmos. It’s a film reel, each frame is the universe created anew by God.
- God creating the human species, the concept of humankind = The beginning part of the film.
- God creating a baby from a mommy and daddy by natural law = part of the storyline within the film.
- God creating Jesus as a Word = an idea formed within the Mind of God, is spoken into the Niche and thus spliced into the movie reel, picked up by downstream Emanations eventually to coalesce as matter, a human embryo that appeared without conception. All souls were created like this, independent of the present film reel though part of it. Souls continue frame to frame within this film reel, and from this movie to the Sequel (afterlife).