The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
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gropingly, to identify an elephant and declaring,
with finality, that it is four pillars, or four tree
trunks. It is only when life and the universe are
scrutinized in the light of the Book of God that
everything appears clearly in its true form; then
even a person of very average ability has no trouble
in understanding the truth of things; at the very
first glance, he goes straight to the heart of the
matter. To a person who does not possess this
Knowledge, however, the universe is but a
labyrinth in which he wanders, lost and distraught.
We owe much to the human sciences. Yet the
absolute maximum that we can learn from them is
what
the universe is. Till now, they have not given
us one iota of knowledge on the subject of
why
the
universe is as it is. Bring together a few gases,
minerals and salts, and you have a moving,
conscious human being. Put seeds in the ground
and up spring plants and trees. Just make a change
in atomic numbers and innumerable elements
come into being. From just two gases, water – that
most precious of commodities – is prepared.
Steam, produced by molecular motion within
water, gives inanimate engines the power to move.
