The Call of the Quran
5. The call of da‘wah in the modern age
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magnetic field and motion as wondrous a divine
miracle as the supernatural brilliance of Moses’
hand, which was a signal to the Egyptians that he
was truly God’s emissary? The sailing of huge ships
over fathomless seas and the flight of aeroplanes
with their passengers in the vastness of the
atmosphere are also as breathtaking divine miracles
as that of a river parting its waters - again a miracle
granted to Moses - so that people could walk in
safety across the river bed. And then creating
machinery and power tools out of inert matter is
surely just as strange a divine miracle as a stick
turning into a writhing snake.
The fact remains that, so far as their probative value
is concerned, the miracles given to the prophets in
ancient times, in support of the veracity of their
message, exist in abundance throughout God’s
universe. Since in the remote past, these miracles
had not come to the knowledge of man, God had to
demonstrate them when it was crucial to his moral
development. The scientific investigations of today
have merely unveiled those same marvels of nature,
which have always sufficed to reaffirm man’s belief
in God and the Hereafter.
