The Call of the Quran
5. The call of da‘wah in the modern age
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human knowledge has accorded the Qur’anic
methodology (indirect argument) exactly the same
importance as that applied to the world outside the
sphere of religious learning, i.e. the sciences and
other secular disciplines.
In the wake of latter-day developments in modern
science, what had earlier been a matter of external
information, i.e. information revealed to the
prophets, has now come within the province of
human investigation. The discovery, for example, in
modern science of the laws of the universe is a
pointer to the existence of God. Similarly, scientists’
findings that, parallel to the existing, visible world,
there exists an invisible world which physicists call
antimatter, clearly proves the existence of the
Hereafter. Yet one of the most important things
conceded by modern science is that man, because of
his limitations, cannot arrive at absolute reality.
This is a clear indication that man needs revelation
for his guidance.
As for requiring miracles as manifestations of the
divine power, should we not consider the
generation of electricity by bringing together a
