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Question: According to the above mentioned narration, the creation of the Qalam (the Pen) is mentioned, whereas narrations are also available according to which Nūr-e-Mustafa was first created. Now how do we bring both these narrations into harmony?
Answer: It is mentioned in a Ṣaḥīḥ Ḥadīš: The Beloved and Blessed Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said, ‘Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ created my Nūr (light) before everything. At that time there was nothing, no Lauḥ (the tablet), no Qalam (the Pen), no Heaven, no Hell, no angels, no skies, no earth, no sun or moon, no jinn and no human. When Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ intended to create the creature, He عَزَّوَجَلَّ then divided the Nūr (the light) into four parts; He عَزَّوَجَلَّ produced the Qalam (the Pen) from one part, the Lauḥ (the tablet) from another and the divine ‘Arsh from the third, etc.’ (Al-Mawāĥib, vol. 1, pp. 36; Kashf-ul-Khifā, vol. 1, pp. 237; Madārij-un-Nubūwwaĥ, vol. 2, pp. 2)
Whichever things are attributed to be the first in the narrations in order of priority, this Ḥadīš proves that all were created from the Nūr of the Beloved Prophet Muhammad صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم just after the creation of the Nūr (the light) of Muhammad صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. And according to this part of the Ḥadīš, ‘The first creation of the Rabb عَزَّوَجَلَّ was the Qalam’ the renowned commentator of the Glorious Quran, Ḥakīm-ul-Ummat Shaykh
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