God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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cause for alarm. The increase in population will be
accompanied by an increase in production: the
means will be available to provide food for 1½
times more than the number of people who have to
be fed. And this increase in food production will be
possible without deforestation. So there is no real
danger of a food crisis, either on a regional or on a
universal scale. Gwynne Dwyer concludes his
report with the following words: ‘Malthus was
wrong. We are not doomed to breed ourselves into
famine.’ Fourteen hundred years before this, the
Quran had said: ‘And fearing hunger, do not slay
your own offspring. We provide for them and for
you. Surely, it is a great error to slay them.2
Where Malthus’ book on population and
sustenance—the work of a human mind working
within the confines of time and place—was very far
out in its predictions for the human race, (and this
was proved to the world just 150 years after the
author’s death) the Quran, on the other hand—the
work of a superhuman mind—still bears out
external realities to this very day.
