Hadith 53

(The book) ‘Al Ihtijaj’ – From Hisham Bin Al Hakam who said, ‘The atheist asked Abu Abdullah-asws. He said, ‘From which thing did Allah-azwj Create the things? ’ He-asws said: ‘From nothing! ’ He said, ‘So how did a thing come from nothing? ’
He-asws said: ‘The things are not vacant from either having been created from a thing or from without a thing. If these were created from a thing, it would have been with Him-azwj. So that thing would be ancient, and the ancient cannot happen to be an occurrence, nor can it perish, nor change. And that thing cannot be vacant from being one essence, and one colour. So, from where did these difference colours and the many existing essences come to be in this world, from various types? And where did the death come from, if the thing from which the things had been created, was alive? And from where did the life come from if that thing was dead? And it is not allowed that a living and dead both be ancient, nor ceasing to be, because the living is such that dead cannot come from it and He-azwj does not cease to be alive, nor is it allowed as well that the dead be ancient, not ceasing to be with what is attributed with the dead, because the dead, there is not power for it, therefore it cannot last’. He said, ‘From where are they saying that the things are eternal? ’ He-asws said: ‘These are words of a people who are rejecting management of the things, so they are belying the Messengers-as and their-as words, and the Prophet-as and what they-as an informed on His‑azwj behalf and named their-as books as ‘stories of the former ones’, and they placed a religion for themselves with their own opinions. And their approbation is that the things