God Arises
Religion and Society
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“And thy Lord inspired the bees, saying:
Choose thou habitations in the hills and in the
trees and in that which they thatch” (16:68).
There are innumerable such instances which show
the probability of there being some consciousness
outside things which instructs them as to their
mode of living.
Sir Arthur Eddington has asserted that the modern
quantum theory is a scientific affirmation of
revelation. This statement of the Quran—”And He
inspired in each heaven its mandate” (41:12)—is
perhaps far more understandable to the 20th
century man than it could have been to the 7th
century man at the time when Quran was revealed.
If we admit that the source of the laws of nature
that govern everything from the stars and planets to
the biological aspects of human life, is the revelation
which is received by everything from the universal
consciousness, we have less difficulty in accepting
the parallel belief that, for the psychological part of
man too, laws must stem from that same external
consciousness.
