Islam Rediscovered
3. The Concept of God
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civilization on earth would have been well nigh
impossible.
There are countless things in the world. But
everything exists in such proportions as will give
the maximum benefit to life on earth. None of the
things on this earth are out of proportion. This
shows that there is only one God—the Creator and
Sustainer of this world. If there were different gods
for different things, then, this perfect balance could
never have been possible. In ancient times people
believed that there were numerous forces
controlling the universe. Newton reduced these
forces to the following four:
gravitational force, electromagnetic force, strong
nuclear force, weak nuclear force.
However, the extraordinary unity that scientists
found in the world was incompatible with the
notion that it was being controlled by four forces.
That is why the scientists have been trying to
reduce the four forces to one. Their efforts were
crowned with success in the second half of the
twentieth century. It is now generally believed that
