The sun, not being God, must prostrate itself every evening before the throne of Allâh; thus it is said in Islam. Similarly, Mâyâ, not being Âtmâ, can affirm itself only intermittently; the worlds spring from the divine Word and return into it.
Instability is the price of contingency; to ask why there will be an end of the world and a resurrection amounts to asking why a respiratory phase stops at a precise moment to be followed by the opposite phase, or why a wave withdraws from the shore after submerging it, or again why the drops of a fountain fall back to earth.
We are divine possibilities projected into the night of existence and diversified by reason of that very projection, as water is scattered into drops when it is launched into space and is crystallized when seized by cold.
Schuon, Light on the Ancient Worlds, USA, 2006, p. 79.
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