tag name Creation type: Philosophy; Religion, general; Science: natural, social, and applied web link bahai-library.com/tags/Creation variations or mis-spellings Creator; Create; See variant original terms in notes below. related tags – Concepts, Philosophical; – Concepts, Religious; – Concepts, Science; – Tags with many search results on bahai.org; God; Necessary relationships of the realities of things; Qayyum (Self-subsisting); Tags with multiple Inventory subjects (selected) referring tags Active force and its recipient; Adam and Eve; Amr va Khalq (compilation); Be and it is (phrase); Book of Creation and written Book (two books); Causality (causation); Composition and decomposition; Created things (creatures); Dualism; Elements; Evolution; Genesis (Bible); God, Word of; Hidden Treasure; Human nature; Kingdoms, Physical; Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Monism; Nature; New creation (phrase); Primal Will; Purpose of life; Seven days of creation (Bible); Seven stages of creation; Universe; World; World of Command and World of Creation Inventory subject Word of God the cause of creation; Absolute freedom; independence of God; Continual renewal of creation; Creation of the world; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Infinity and eternity; Man is the sum; pinnacle; fruit of creation; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Necessary and possible being; Pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient notes See also:
– Bahá'í Sacred Writings, chapter 4, section "God and Creation" (Bahá'u'lláh), and chapter 13, section Creation and the Appearance of Humanity" ('Abdu'l-Bahá)
– Covenant Library Unified Index
In cases where it means "created things", "creation" corresponds to one of these:
khalq ( خلق )
ashyá’ ( اشیاء )
mumkinát ( ممکنات )When it occurs in such phrases as "the realm of creation," then "creation" corresponds to one of these:
inshá’ ( انشاء )
imkán ( امکان )
vujúd ( وجود )
íjád ( ایجاد )
ibdá‘ ( ابداع )
ikhtirá‘ ( اختراع )
selected quotations
(authoritative sources)These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts:
"... That which hath been in existence had existed before, but not in the form thou seest today. The world of existence came into being through the heat generated from the interaction between the active force and that which is its recipient. These two are the same, yet they are different..."
– Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Lawḥ-i-Ḥikmat (Tablet of Wisdom), ¶9 (BH00223)"Veiled in My immemorial being and in the ancient eternity of My essence, I knew My love for thee; therefore I created thee, have engraved on thee Mine image and revealed to thee My beauty."
– Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, Arabic, no. 3 (BH00386)"... The entire creation hath been called into being through the Will of God..., and peerless Adam hath been fashioned through the agency of His all-compelling Word, a Word which is the source, the wellspring, the repository, and the dawning-place of the intellect. From it all creation hath proceeded, and it is the channel of God’s primal grace. None can grasp the reality of the origin of creation save God..., Whose knowledge embraceth all things both before and after they come into being. Creation hath neither beginning nor end, and none hath ever unravelled its mystery. Its knowledge hath ever been, and shall remain, hidden and preserved...
The truth that shineth bright and resplendent as the sun is this, that all have been created through the operation of the Divine Will and have proceeded from the same source, that all are from Him and that unto Him they shall all return..."
– Bahá'u'lláh, The Tabernacle of Unity, Responses to questions of Mánikchi Sáhib from a Tablet to Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl ¶2.48, 51 (BH00048)
"... Know that the order and perfection of the universe require that existence should appear in countless forms. Created things cannot therefore be realized in a single degree, station, manner, kind, or species: Differences of degree, distinctions in form, and a multiplicity of kinds and species are inevitable. So there must necessarily be mineral, vegetable, animal, and human kingdoms; for through man alone the world of existence could not be adequately arranged, adorned, organized, and perfected. By the same token, with the animals, plants, or minerals alone, this world would not possess such a wondrous appearance, sound arrangement, and subtle adornment: There must be differences of degrees and stations, of kinds and species, for existence to shine forth with the utmost perfection.
For example, if this tree were to become entirely fruit, the perfections of the vegetable kingdom could not be attained, for leaves, blossoms, and fruit are all needed for the tree to appear in the utmost beauty and perfection.
Consider likewise the body of man, which must of necessity be composed of different parts, limbs, and organs. The beauty and perfection of the human body require the existence of the ear, the eye, the brain, and even the nails and hair: If man were all brain, eyes, or ears, this would be tantamount to imperfection. So the absence of hair, eyelashes, teeth, and nails is imperfection itself, for even though in comparison with the eyes the latter are insentient and resemble the mineral and the plant, yet their absence in the body of man is most disagreeable and displeasing..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, chapter 32 (AB01359)"... we have no record of twenty thousand years ago, even though we established before through rational arguments that life on this earth is very ancient—not one or two hundred thousand, or even one or two million years old: It is ancient indeed, and the records and traces of ancient times have been entirely obliterated..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, 41.3 Universal Cycles (AB00206)"... As for the story of Adam, the Father of Mankind, which is recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, this requireth explanation and interpretation. By “genesis” is intended a spiritual creation and heavenly existence; for otherwise the most cursory reflection would be sufficient to convince even a child that this boundless universe, the world of being—this infinite cosmos, this prodigious system, this mighty and primordial workshop—is far more than six thousand years old, as hath in fact been realized in this illumined age by scientists and men of learning, on the basis of decisive proofs and evidences founded on both reason and discovery. In recent times remains have come to light which have been definitely and conclusively established to be more than ten thousand years old. Through the science of geology this hidden secret hath been grasped—that the age of the world surpasseth man’s conception..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks (AB00262)
references en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation; bahaiquotes.com/subject/creation-of-the-world; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Creation
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