Cleansing İn The Universe - The Divine Name Most Holy

The Divine Name Most Holy

The universe is a vast, constantly working factory and the globe of the earth a 
hostel and guesthouse which is continually filled and emptied. Generally, factories, 
hostels and guesthouses which are thus used become much dirtied and soiled with 
filth, debris and rubbish, and putrid matter accumulates in all parts of them. They 
cannot be occupied unless they are kept with care and cleaned and swept; human 
beings are overwhelmed by the dirt. The factory of the universe and guesthouse of the 
earth, however, are totally pure, clean and spotless, and completely unsoiled, 
untainted and fresh; there is nothing unnecessary, nothing without benefit, not a 
random piece of dirt to be found. Even if there is apparently, it is quickly thrown into 
a transformation machine and cleaned.
This means that the One who looks after this factory does so very well. Its Owner 
is such that He sweeps and cleans and orders the vast factory and extensive palace as 
though they were small rooms. Considering the size of the huge factory, there is no 
dirt or rubbish remaining from its filth and debris. Indeed, its cleanness and tidiness 
are remarkable.If someone does not wash himself and clean his small room for a month, they 
will become extremely dirty and soiled. That is to say, the cleanliness, purity, and 
luminosity in this palace of the world arise from a continuous, wise, and diligent 
cleaning. If it were not for this cleaning, sweeping and careful tending, in one year all 
the hundred thousand animal species would have been choked on the face of the earth.
Also, the debris of the globes in space and the heavens, which manifest life and 
death, and of satellites and stars, would have smashed not only our heads and those of 
the other animals, but also the head of the earth itself and of our world. They would 
have rained down on our heads rocks the size of mountains and driven us away from 
our homeland in this world. However, for a long time past, if as a warning a few 
meteorites have fallen as a result of destruction and reconstruction in those lofty 
worlds, they have not broken any heads.
Furthermore, the corpses of a hundred thousand animal species and the debris of 
two hundred thousand plant species each year on the face of the earth resulting from 
the alternation and struggles of life and death would have so utterly filthied the land 
and the sea that conscious creatures, rather than loving and delighting in the face of 
the earth, would have felt disgust and aversion at such ugliness and fled to death and 
non-existence.Just as a bird cleans its wings with ease and a scribe his pages, so too the wings 
of the aircraft of the earth and the birds of the heavenly bodies and the pages of the 
book of the universe are cleaned and made beautiful. So much so that people who do 
not consider the infinite beauty of the hereafter and think with belief become lovers of this cleanliness and beauty of the world, they 
worship it.
That is to say, this palace of the world and factory of the universe display a 
greatest manifestation of the divine name Most Holy whereby it is not only the 
carniverous cleaners of the seas and the eagles of the land which obey the commands 
proceeding from that sacred cleansing, but also its cleansing officials which gather up 
corpses, like worms and ants. Like the red and white blood-corpuscles flowing in the 
body obey those sacred commands and do the cleaning in the body’s cells, so does 
breathing purify and clean the blood.
And as eyelids obey the command to clean the eye and flies to brush their wings, 
so the extensive atmosphere and the clouds obey it. The air blows upon the pieces of 
dust and soil settled on the surface of the earth and cleans it. The sponges of the 
clouds sprinkle water on the garden of the earth and dampen the dust and soil. Then, 
so as not to dirty the sky, the air quickly collects the earth’s rubbish and withdraws 
and hides itself with perfect orderliness. It displays the beautiful face and eye of the 
skies as swept and polished, all sparkling and shining.
And as the stars, elements, minerals, and plants obey the command to clean, all 
particles and atoms obey it: they pay attention to cleanliness within the astonishing 
upheavals of change and transformation. They never congregate anywhere 
unnecessarily and get in the way. If they do become soiled, they are quickly cleaned. 
They are impelled by a hand of wisdom to acquire the cleanest, neatest, and most 
shining states and the most beautiful, pure and subtle forms. 
Thus, this single act, that is, making clean, which is a single truth, is a greatest 
manifestation of a greatest name, the name of Most Holy, which shows itself in the 
maximum sphere, that is, throughout the universe. Like the sun, it shows directly to 
eyes that are far-seeing and broad-sighted the divine existence and unity together with 
the most beautiful divine names.
It has been established with decisive proofs in many parts of the Risale-i Nur that 
the act of ordering and order, which are a manifestation of the names of Sapient and 
All-Wise; and the act of weighing and balance, which are a manifestation of the 
names of Justice and All-Just; and the act of adorning and munificence, which are a 
manifestation of the names of Beauteous and All-Generous; and the act of sustaining 
and bestowal, which are a manifestation of the names of Sustainer and Most 
Compassionate are each a single truth and a single act, they therefore demonstrate the 
necessary existence and unity of a Single Being. In exactly the same way, the act of 
purifying and making clean, which is a manifestation and display of thename Most Holy, demonstrates like the sun both the existence of the Necessarily 
Existent One, and like daylight, His unity.
And as the wise acts of ordering, balancing, adorning and making clean 
mentioned above point to a Single Maker by reason of their unity of kind in the 
maximum sphere, so most of the beautiful names, indeed, the thousand and one 
names, each have such a greatest manifestation in the maximum sphere. And the act 
proceeding from that manifestation points to the Single Unique One with clarity and 
decisiveness in relation to its extensiveness.
The self-evident truths and single acts that illuminate the face of the universe and 
make it smile, such as the universal wisdom that causes all things to conform to its 
law and order, the comprehensive munificence that adorns all things and causes them 
to smile, the all-embracing mercy that makes all things pleased and happy, the 
universal providing of sustenance which nurtures and gives pleasure to all things, and 
the life and giving of life which connects each thing with all things and makes each 
thing benefit from, and to some extent own, all things – these self-evident truths and 
single acts point as plainly as light points to the sun to a single All-Wise, AllGenerous, and All-Compassionate One, a single Sustainer, a single Ever-Living Giver 
of Life.
If those hundreds of extensive acts, each of which is a clear proof of God’s unity, 
are not attributed to the Single Unique One, each necessarily becomes impossible in 
hundreds of respects. For example, let alone such self-evident truths and single 
evidences as wisdom, providence, mercy, sustaining and giving of life, if only the act 
of making clean is not attributed to the Creator of the universe, then the following 
becomes necessary in the unbelieving way of the people of misguidance:
Either all the creatures connected to cleansing from particles and flies to the 
elements and the stars would have to have the ability to know and consider the 
adorning, balancing, and cleansing of the vast universe and would act accordingly, or 
each would have to possess the sacred attributes of the world’s Creator, or each would 
have to be present at a consultative meeting the size of the universe in order to 
regulate the equilibrium of the adorning and cleansing of the universe and its 
incomings and outgoings, and innumerable particles, flies, and stars would have to be 
participants in the meeting; and so on. Hundreds of superstitious, nonsensical and 
sophistical impossibilities like these would have to occur so that the universal, 
comprehensive, and exalted adorning, purifying and cleansing that is to be seen and 
observed everywhere could come about. As for this, it is not impossible once, but a 
hundred thousand times over.
If daylight and the imaginary miniature suns represented in the shiningobjects on the earth are not attributed to the sun and they are not said to be the 
manifestation of the sun’s reflection, it would be necessary for the actual sun to be 
present in all fragments of glass, drops of water and snow-flakes glistening on the 
face of the earth, and even in all particles of air, so that the universal light could exist.
Thus, wisdom is a light; all-embracing mercy is a light; adorning, balancing, 
ordering, and cleansing are each an encompassing light: they are all the rays of the 
Pre-Eternal Sun. So see how misguidance and unbelief have entered a bog from 
which there is no escape! See just how idiotic is the ignorance of misguidance! Say: 
“Praise be to God for the religion of Islam and complete and perfect belief!”
For sure, this exalted, universal cleansing which keeps the palace of the universe 
clean is the manifestation and requirement of the divine name Most Holy. Yes, just as 
the glorification of all creatures looks to the name Most Holy, so does the name of 
Most Holy require their cleanliness.It is because of this sacred connection of cleanliness that the Hadith, “Cleanliness is a part of belief” deems it to be a light of belief. And the verse,
Indeed, God loves those who turn to Him constantly and He loves those who 
keep themselves pure and clean
shows that cleanliness is a means of attracting God’s love