Your Fourth Question: That is, it is not your question, but Ömer Efendi's. A wretched doctor says that Hazrat ‘Îsâ ‘Alayhissalâm had a father. With a lunatic forced interpretation, he cites an âyah1 as evidence. {Note: Although the extraordinary states of an extraordinary individual of mankind, who is the leader of a quarter of them, who passed from the level of life of mankind to the level of life of malâikah in one aspect, left the earth and made the samâwât his homeland, require an extraordinary form of the law of giving birth to offspring, including him under that law in a questionable, unknown and even vile way against fitrah would in no way have been appropriate for him, nor was there any necessity for him to be included under it. Moreover, the explicit statements of the Qur'an do not bear interpretation. For the sake of restoring the law of giving birth to offspring that has been broken in a hundred ways, how can the law of the malâikah’s gender — which is outside the law of giving birth to offspring and in no way can be broken — and these powerful laws, such as the laws in the explicit statements of the Qur'an, be attacked?}
At one time, that wretched doctor was trying to create a writing with the Arabic letters without joining them.2 He was working feverishly at this. Then, I understood that he had realised from the zindiq’s attitude that they were going to attempt to abolish the Islamic script. The man was working in vain, as though he was going to serve against that flood. Now, in this Matter, and in the Second Matter related to him, he realised the zindiq’s terrible attacks against the fundamentals of Islam, and I assume that he wants to find a way to reconcile through such meaningless forced interpretations.
According to the definite nass such as اِنَّ مَثَلَ ع۪يسٰى عِنْدَ اللّٰهِ كَمَثَلِ اٰدَمَۜ3, while there is the certainty of Hazrat ‘Îsâ ‘Alayhissalâm having no father, no importance is given and is not worthy of giving importance to the words of those who attempt to change this firm and fundamental haqiqah through nonsensical forced interpretations due to the acceptance of the impossibility of the violation of a law concerning reproduction because every law has exceptions and unique individuals, and it is breached by individuals. And all universal rules have been granted with extraordinary individuals. Since the time of Âdam, it has been possible for an individual to be exempt from the law and excluded from it.
Firstly, at the beginning, the law of giving birth to offspring has been torn by the origins of the two hundred thousand animal species and destroyed. That is, their first fathers, those two hundred thousand foremost fathers, simply their Âdam, had torn the law of giving birth to offspring; they had not come from a father and a mother; the existence had been given to them outside that law.
Furthermore, the innimurable individuals of the majority of the hundred thousand species that we see with our eyes every spring are created outside that law on the leaves and from the materials that are rotten and fetid. How unreasonable is a mind that cannot squeeze to his mind that an individual is an exception from a law in 1900 years, while that law is torn and broken at its beginning and even every year by such irregulars; how unreasonable is a mind that clings to a forced interpretation against the nass of the Qur'an? You compare!
The things those wretches call natural laws are the laws of Âdâtullah that are the universal manifestation of the command of Allah and Irâdah of Ar-Rabb; for certain hikmahs, Janâb-i Haqq changes such customs of His. He shows that His will and irâdah rule over everything and every law. He tears His custom in certain extraordinary individuals. He demonstrates this haqiqah through the decree اِنَّ مَثَلَ ع۪يسٰى عِنْدَ اللّٰهِ كَمَثَلِ اٰدَمَۜ .
1 [فَلَن تَجِدَ لِسُنَّتِ ٱللَّهِ تَبْدِيلًا ۖ وَلَن تَجِدَ لِسُنَّتِ ٱللَّهِ تَحْوِيلًا You will find no change in the Sunnah of Allah, nor will you find any alteration in the Sunnah of Allah. (35:43)] (Tr.)
2 (During the last period of the Ottoman Empire, an attempt to use Arabic letters without joining them with each other as in the Latin alphabet. It occurred before the attempt to abolish the Islamic script, which is a shaâer of Islam. This attempt was thwarted by the religious authorities of the Ottoman Empire at that time.) (Tr.)
3 (The example of ‘Îsâ before Allah is that of Âdam.)