Asslamo Allaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Baraktuh,
Shaykh (Maulana) Qasim Nanotwi (RA) & Shaykh (Maulana) Ahmed Raza Khan Barelwee (RA) both lived in the time of Newtonian Physics i.e. before Einstein came and revolutionised our understanding of the universe with Quantum Physics and especially with his theory of relativity. It is critical to understand their era before we can understand what I am about to discuss.
The understanding of their time was that there was a direct relationship between cause and effect and universe was one-dimensional.

