Translations:On Üçüncü Lem'a/55/en
to the first part of the question: as is elucidated in the treatise on divine determining,(*[1]) the creation of evil is not evil; it is the inclination to do evil that is evil. For creation and bringing into being look to all the results. Since the existence of one evil is preliminary to numerous good results, by virtue of those results, the creation of the evil becomes good, and is as though good.
- ↑ *The Twenty-Sixth Word. See, The Words (Istanbul: Sözler Publications, 2008), 477-90. (Tr.)