The Qur’an For All Humanity
Universe bears Witness
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UNIVERSE BEARS WITNESS
In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the
alternation of night and day; in the ships that sail
the ocean with cargoes beneficial to man; in the
water which God sends down from the sky and
with which he revives the earth after its death,
dispersing over it all manner of beasts; in the
movements of the winds, and in the clouds driven
between earth and sky: surely in these there are
signs for people who understand.
(The Qur’an 2:163-164)
The universe, stretching out to infinity on all sides,
is a sublime testament to God’s immanence. The
very existence of an incredibly vast universe is
proof of there being a Creator. And that there is
only one Creator and Sustainer is testified to by the
complete harmony and correspondence of all the
objects in existence, despite their multiplicity.
So many of these things having been tamed to meet
human requirements shows that man’s Creator is a
God of unbounded compassion; even before man
came into existence, God had already provided for
