The Call of the Quran
1. Divine Planning
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The first phase of this mission aimed at putting an
end to the practice of deriving political theories
from natural phenomena.
This goal was fully achieved in the seventh century.
The second stage aimed at removing the veil of
superstition from the phenomena of nature and
casting upon them the light of knowledge. This
second stage began with the era of prophethood (of
the Prophet Muhammad) and later reached its
zenith in the present scientific revolution.
The present world is a manifestation of the
attributes of God. Here man finds his Creator in the
mirror of His creation. By making a profound study
of creation, he witnesses God’s power and
greatness. The ancient idolatrous concepts had, on
the contrary, rendered all material things of this
world mysteriously sacred. The superstitious ideas,
which had come to surround them, came in the way
of research being carried out on the multitude of
objects in this world. When the entire world came to
be held as God’s creation in the wake of the
monotheistic revolution, this mentality of holding
everything sacred vanished. Now everything began
