بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَإِذَا قَضَى أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ
the Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decides on a matter, He just says to it, ‘Be!’ and it is.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 2:117
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 2:117] Badi means the originator who designs, makes, begins and brings into existence for the first time, without any pre-existing similar example. Ali ibna abi Talib says: "He (Allah) created the creation in the perfect sense of creating and began it in the perfect sense of beginning, under precisely regulating laws, and made their unlike, complex and diverse dispositions agree and fit well together, implanted and infused harmony, balance and co-ordination in their nature. (For all this) He did not have to check up on or try out their course, nor had to make use of trial and verification, nor was He enthusiastic or anxiously thoughtful that could make Him excited." (Nahj al Balagha) Kun fa-yakun (Be, and it is.) is a term to bring home to the human mind the omnipotent will which can never be translated into any verbal expression. Imam Ali ibna Abi Talib says: "Not by sound uttered, nor by voice heard, His word, blessed be He, is "action", beginning and proceeding from Him." Aqa Mahdi Puya says: To refute the Christian theory of "the son of God", here and in many other verses of the Quran, the word badi has been used. The four principles of the causative factors responsible for the existence of the finite beings are material cause, formal cause, initial cause and final cause. Anything made, owes its existence to the material out of which it is made, and the particular shape or form it has been given. These are the structural causes. The agency through which a thing is made is called the agential cause: (1) The person who brings the material into shape is called the agential cause. (2) The motive or the purpose which moves the agent is the final cause. Creation (badi ) means bringing a thing into being out of nothing through the agency of the will of the agential cause without the slightest change in the essence or the attributes of the agent. According to the Quran this is the relation of the absolute creator to all finite created beings, therefore, only the creator is eternal and none else is co-existing with Him, and there is no one as a part of Him.]