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The points of difference and the contrasting features shall
no longer remain obscure. Scientist through his knowledge
has tended towards confusion, disbelief, dismay, distress,
fear, misapprehension, perplexity, and lack of confidence.
He fails to find the purpose of creation of this universe
and the creation of man therein has puzzled him to the
extremes. His hopes of ultimately finding the truth lay
unfortunately in the scientific knowledge of a degree, much
beyond the human reach, at least, at present. He has used
all his knowledge to prove disbelief and his future
expectations in the discoveries tend to further
strengthening disbelief. He desires to usurp the sovereignty
of God through man's conquest of the realm of nature,
whereas Quran reiterates the right for God through his
absolute command in the present world and his unshared
sovereignty on the day of judgment, the judgment of the just
and merciful God, the hope of His creatures. One wonders how
if on the one hand the modern scientist is splitting the
invisible atom and is endeavoring to reach the moon and the
mars, on the other hand his sight, in the matters of human
philosophy, is so weak and his understanding so blind, that
he calls this creation on earth a chance, a creation that
lacks proportion, a byproduct and something out of the way.
That he should blink his eyes at the possible purpose of the
creation and the purpose of man's existence on earth. That
he should completely ignore the possibility of a life after
death, and all that he should do surprisingly by dint of his
knowledge of this material universe. The modern philosophy,
therefore, as we shall see, is the complete antithesis of
that of the Quran in this respect. It is their misfortune to
end in atomic conflagration. And inglorious end indeed for
mankind. It now is the moral duty incumbent upon the Moslem
to learn and then to teach humanity the precise outlook of
the Quran in religious, moral and spiritual values. That,
perhaps mankind may still live, and that perhaps this
dreadful danger of atomic ruin be averted. And if the
humanity were destined to meet its end through atomic
disaster, let at least the survivals be furnished with a
light and a book which could guarantee peace and prosperity
in this world and the unmixed bliss in the life to come. The
Quran indeed as you shall with your own eyes see, has
contained sufficient proof of the fact, that as if it knew
that such and such author shall in such and such age present
to the mankind such and such works to contain such and such
words so that Quran occasionally repeats some of the words.
They attribute everything to the laws of nature, Quran
attributes everything to God the Creator,
as separate from nature and as absolute master of everything and always the
signs which increase the faith of a believer, add mere perplexity to the
scientists.
SCIENTIST:
"A
few
stars are known which are hardly bigger than the earth, but the majority are so
large that hundreds of thousands of earths could be packed inside each and leave
room to spare; here and there we come upon a giant star large enough to contain
millions of millions of earths".
(The Mysterious Universe page 1 para 1
).
COMMENTS:
The Scientist by the comparative smallness of the
earth as against the universe intends to disparage the earth and minimize its
significance in order to prove the life upon earth a mere by-product and somehow
out of the way. The Quran therefore says:-
"God is cognizant of what every female carries in her womb, or what
the wombs want to exceed (of their disburdening time). With Him all things are
in determined measure. He is the knower of the known and the unknown, the mighty
and most high". (Thunder,Ar-Ra'd 8-9).
SCIENTIST :
"And the total number of stars in the universe is
probably something like the total number of grains of sand on all the seashores
of the world".
( The Mysterious Universe page 1 para
1 ).
COMMENTS :
The Scientist is tending toward his ultimate
ignorance of the purpose of creation by belittling the earth and the life upon
it. Hence says the Quran :-
“Say! If the ocean turned to ink for writing down the colloquy of my
Lord, the ocean itself would be exhausted ere the words (and wonders) of my Lord
come to end, even if we brought another like it for replenishment". ( Quran
Al-Kahf- The Cave- 109 ).
SCIENTIST :
"Such is the littleness of our home in space, when
measured up against the total substance of the universe". ( The Mysterious
Universe page 1, Para 1 ).
COMMENTS :
Do not worry. Quran says :-
“Tell them! O my creatures, who have come to belief, have fear of
dispensing your lord. There is good for those who do good in this world, and
spacious is God's earth Only those who persevere will get their reward
measureless". (Quran: The Small Groups, Az-Zumar 10 ).
SCIENTIST :
"This vast multitude of stars are wandering in
space. A few form groups which journey in company. But the majority are solitary
travellers". (The Mysterious Universe page 1 para 2 ).
QURAN :
“It is He who made the stars by which you reckon
your way through the darkness of the desert and the sea. Distinct have we made
our signs for those who recognize". (Quran - The Cattle- Al-an'am - 97 ).
SCIENTIST :
"And they (these stars) travel through a universe
so spacious, that it is an event of almost unimaginable rarity for a star to
come anywhere near to another star". (The Mysterious Universe page 1 para 2).
QURAN:
We built the heavens by Our Will; and We are the
Lord of power and expanse". (Quran -TheDispersing- Adh-Dhariyat - 47 ).
SCIENTIST :
"For the most part each (star) voyages in splendid
isolation, like a ship on empty ocean. In a scale model in which stars are
ships, the average ship will be over a million miles from its nearest neighbour,
whence it is easy to understand why a ship seldom finds another within hailing
distance". The M Universe page I, para ).
QURAN
:
"He harnessed the day and night for you, as also
the sun, the moon and the stars, by His command. In this are, signs for men who
understand". ( Quran - The Bees - An-Nahl- 12 ).
“He has the keys of the Unknown. No one but He has knowledge; He
knows what is on the land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls that is not known to
him, nor a grain in the darkest (races) of the earth, nor any thing green or
seared that is not recorded in the Book perspicuous".
(Quran - Al-An'am - The Cattle - 59
).
SCIENTIST:
"We believe nevertheless, that some two thousand million years ago this rare
event took place, and that a second star, wandering blindly through space,
happened to come within hailing distance of the sun. Just as the sun and the
moon raise tides on the earth, so this second star must have raised tides on the
surface of the sun. But they would be very different from the puny tides which
the small mass of the moon raises in our oceans; a huge tidal wave must have
traveled over the surface of the sun, ultimately forming a mountain of
prodigious height, which would rise ever higher and higher, as the cause of
disturbance came nearer and nearer. And before the second star began to recede,
its tidal pull had become so powerful, that this mountain was torn to pieces,
and threw off small fragments of its much as the crest of a wave throws off
spray. These small fragments have been circulating around their parent sun, ever
since. They are the planets, great and small of which our earth is one". (
Mysterious Universe page 3 ).
COMMENTS
:
The scientist through this possibility of the accidental birth of our earth
intends to strengthen his argument regarding his denial of the religious purpose
of creation and of man's creation. Yet the story of this plausible accident is
based on sheer speculation. No scientist could come out with a substantial
scientific proof of the accident. It is just their belief without the testimony
of proof.
QURAN :
Signs are of avail only to the believers :-
“Indeed there are signs for believers in the
heavens and the earth". ( Kneeling Al-Jathiyah : Makki 3 ).
Say : “Observe all there is in the heavens and the earth. But signs
or warnings will be of no avail to those who do not believe".( Jonah 101).
“Have they not traveled in the land that they could have the heart
to understand, and ears to hear? It is not the eyes alone that do not see,
oblivious are the hearts within their breasts". ( The Pilgrimage Al-Hajj 46
)
SCIENTIST:
"The sun and the other stars we see in the sky are all intensely hot
far too hot for life to be able to obtain or retain a footing on them".
(The Mysterious Universe page 2 para
4)
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