The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
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how the mind functions. With such inadequate
faculties, he is neither able to arrive at any sound
conclusion concerning himself, nor he is able to
understand the Universe.
This riddle is solved by the Book of God. Today, the
Qur’an is the only scripture beneath the heavens
about which we can say with complete conviction
that it gives us definite knowledge concerning all
the realities of life.
Those who have tried to understand the Universe
without recourse to the Book of God are just like
those blind people who try to find out what an
elephant is by touching different parts of its body.
One will touch its leg, and think he has found a
pillar. Another will feel its ear, and think it is a
winnowing basket. Its back will be proclaimed a
platform, its tail a snake and its trunk a hosepipe.
But where in all this is the elephant? No matter how
these blind people put together their findings, they
cannot arrive at the correct answer. This is the
eternal predicament of all atheist philosophers and
thinkers. In their attempt to fathom the nature of
reality in the universe, they have failed to be guided
