QSI Version Further On "The Forces Of Faith"

WDM on Unity of Man and Matter in A Spiritual Universe

Everything that Allah created has an inclination to obey what he intended for that thing in its nature or its natural constitution. [Which means all things are] influenced by the law of G’d for them, that he established in their creation.

Now spiritual is to be understood as influence. So because of influence on them on their entity they react and obey. [For example,] the sun's influence upon life on earth brings about obedience and growth, etc. right? Right.

Now the world of science says that everything is interconnected and so everything is influenced by everything else. So this is a universal kind of gravity and more than just gravity but other influences.  This is universal influence; invisible forces working between things  and, therefore, the universe is a spiritual environment for those things.

Yes so the creation shares with us then a spiritual nature doesn't it? But we're talking about influences. Don't miss that. Don't think about our human spirit. It also has a spiritual nature. It also responds to influences [It also it acts and reacts as a subject to the influence of the laws of G'd]. It [the material universe] has a spiritual nature and it is affected spiritually by the things all around it because it has its spiritual nature. It is affected by the spirit or the spiritual environment all around it or the influences all around it and all about it.

02/25/1995 Athens, GeorgiaImams' Ramadan Session – An Excerpt