Translations:Yirmi Altıncı Lem'a/143/en
Yes, in consequence of this truth, according to the meaning of the verse, Those on whom you call besides God cannot create [even] a fly, if they all met together for the purpose,(22:73)(*[1])if all material causes were to gather together and if they possessed will, they could not gather together the being of a single fly and its systems and organs with their particular balance. And even if they could gather them together, they could not make them remain in the specified measure of the being. And even if they could make them remain thus, they could not make those minute particles, which are constantly being renewed and coming into existence and working, work regularly and in order. In which case, self-evidently, causes cannot claim ownership of things. That is to say, their True Owner is someone else.
- ↑ *That is, “Should all the things you call upon and worship other than God were to gather together, they could not create so much as a fly.”