When Paramashiva gave Darshan to Markandeya, he did a stuti:
श्रीमद्भागवतपुराणम्/स्कन्धः १२/अध्यायः १०
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सृष्ट्वेदं मनसा विश्वं आत्मनानुप्रविश्य यः ।
गुणैः कुर्वद्भिराभाति कर्तेव स्वप्नदृग् यथा ॥ ३१ ॥
Brahman created this world mentally and entered it. In a dream one feels as if he has done some or the other action but in reality he has no doership, kartrutva. He is just a witness to the dream, while only the three gunas do all the creation. This is how it is in the present context of Ishwara creating. Paramatma only appears as the creator of the world. Indeed, Ishwara does nothing.
Brahman nirguna, nishkriya, passive. Brahman is the cause of the world only by Maya association. This causality is not true.
Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita:
मयाध्यक्षेण प्रकृतिः सूयते सचराचरम् ।
हेतुनानेन कौन्तेय जगद्विपरिवर्तते ॥10॥ 9.10
While I am a mere witness, nature, Prakruti, creates this world of all beings moving and unmoving.
Om