The Call of the Quran
1. Divine Planning
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the revival of Islam in modern times, thus becoming
warners and givers of good tidings for the peoples
of the world.
In order to facilitate the Islamic revolution in its first
phase, God made the special provision of setting the
mighty Roman and Persian empires – the greatest
opponents of monotheism – on a collision course, and
consequently weakening them so considerably that it
became easy for the Muslims to subjugate them.
This same succour of God for the believers has
taken another form in modern times, i.e. the flow of
such information about the universe as proves
religious realities at the level of miracles. The
superstitious way of thinking dominated the world
in ancient times, as a result of which man had
formed strange opinions about divine creation. The
universe has been called the ‘miracle of God’ in the
Qur’an. But this divine miracle lay hidden under
the veil of superstition. One of the results of the
Islamic revolution is that the phenomena of nature,
which had been subjects of worship, now became
subjects of research and investigation. In this way,
for the first time in human history, the occurrences
