The Unity of Divinity

If we comprehend Allah’s Lordship and properly understand its reality, we will see that its concept is very extensive and has many manifestations. As a whole, Lordship is divided into two parts: One lordship is takwini (Pertaining to creation) and the other lordship is tashri`i (pertaining to divines laws and religion). At-Tawhid pertaining to lordship in creation is to believe that management and running of the world in the realities of creation are in the hand of the Almighty Allah and to believe that the revolution of the moon and the sun, the emergence of the day and the night, men's life and death and the protection of the creatures and the world from destructive strikes and clashes is with Allah and it is He Who preserves the heavens and the earth.ان اللّه يمسك السموات و الارض ان تزولا...“Surely Allah upholds the heavens and the earth lest they come to naught ... (35:41).”Just in the same way, the coming into being of every creature in any part of this spacious world, its growth, its death, its reproduction and or its emerging any sign(s) of being, are all under the management, and will-power of the Almighty Allah and there is no phenomenon outside the sphere of the Lordship of the Almighty Allah. Breathing, speaking, listening, the movement of the wind, the growth of the plants, the movement of even a little leaf on the branches of a tree, the movement of an ant, and even the movement of a gnat are not outside divine lordship and no being in any part of the world can make the least movement without His permission in creation. Therefore, there will no longer be any room for independently bringing about changes or affecting by angels and other creatures of Allah and any change or effect brought about by the creatures, it is under Allah’s permission in creation and due to the power Allah has given them and they have no independence of their own in the fulfilment of an action and in applying that power. That is to say, it is not that even if Allah does not will, a creature is able to fulfil an action, bring about a phenomenon and/or create a change in the world. Allah’s will-power in creation is dominant over the whole world and everything lies under His will-power. Of course, this does not mean compulsion and is neither inconsistent with men's freewill the description on which has been given in its own place.
Source: Al-tawhid- by: Misbah Yazdi –p.24-25