In The Name Of God, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
If some one were to tell you that in the centre of town there was a big store, with no sales staff or managers, which was running smoothly, with goods coming in on time and being sold automatically to customers, would you believe it? Could you accept the notion of goods coming in without any supplier, and being sold without the agency of any salesman? Could you agree that the goods in the shop would be safe from burglars and thieves without the supervision of security staff? It goes without saying that nobody in his right mind could believe in the existence of such a store.
Or take another example: Suppose that somebody told you he had seen a large factory running by itself, without any managers, foremen, engineers or machine operators. Imagine, furthermore, being told that the factory had come into existence spontaneously, that all the components of the machines had fitted themselves into place and were running smoothly, churning out excellent products. Surely you would doubt the sanity of the person telling you this story – only a madman could makeup such a tale!
Think then, about these examples: Could you accept that an electric bulb would generate light by itself? Could the greatest philosopher in the world convince you that a chair had assumed its present form by itself? Could you be persuaded that the cloth of your coat had woven itself, or that your house had not been built, but had come into existence spontaneously?
These are just a few everyday examples. But if you cannot believe that a shop can be run without any salesman, or that a factory can be built without engineers and run without staff, how can you possibly be persuaded that the Universe is without a creator or master? In the vast complexity of the Universe, countless living beings and innumerable heavenly bodies function and interact with clockwork precision.
Have they not looked at the heaven above them, how We have made it and adorned it, and there are no rifts in it? (TMQ 50:6)
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Who has created the seven heavens one above another, you can see no fault in the creations of the Most Beneficent. Then look again: “Can you see any rifts?” (TMQ 67:3)
Then look again and yet again, your sight will return to you in a state of humiliation and worn out. (TMQ 67:4)
Vapour rises from the oceans and forms into clouds; the wind blows the clouds to distant parts of the earth and, under the right conditions, the vapour condenses and falls to the earth as rain. The rainwater brings the dead earth to life, and facilitates the growth of food-crops, trees, fruits and flowers.
And it is He Who sends the winds as heralds of glad tidings, going before His Mercy (rain). Till when they have carried a heavy-laden cloud, We drive it to a land that is dead, then We cause water (rain) to descend thereon. Then We produce every kind of fruit therewith. Similarly, We shall raise up the dead, so that you may remember or take heed. (TMQ 7:57)
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Have you not seen how God makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a stack, and then you see the rain come out of it and He sends down hail from mountains (clouds) in the sky, and He strikes with it whomever He wills, and turns it from whomever He wills. The vivid flash of its lightning nearly blinds the sight. (TMQ 24:43)
Could any rational person be convinced that this vast, complex and integrated system came into existence without any creator and is running without a master controller?
We have no hesitation in dismissing as a lunatic a person who believes that a piece of cloth or a chair came into existence spontaneously; can we then accept the thesis of the person who says that the earth sprang into existence of its own accord, that the animals came to life by themselves and that the most complex of living beings – mankind – came into existence without any creator? Chemical analysis of the physical make-up of the human body has shown it to be composed of certain quantities of iron, carbon, sulphur phosphorus, calcium, sodium, etc. – Substances which cost no more than a few pennies altogether. But could anybody create human being merely by combining these substances in the same proportion in which they are found in the human body? Surely not – so how can we be expected to believe that a human being, capable of such complicated feats of technology as making aeroplanes and televisions, came into existence without the design of a superior intelligence and the skill of a master craftsman?
Have you ever thought about how the human infant is formed and developed in the tiny workshop of the mother’s womb? Neither father nor mother has anything to do with this wonderful process. At a moment of which neither father nor mother is aware, two small “life-germs”, which cannot even be seen without the aid of a microscope, come together and unite. Thereafter, the new life draws its nourishment from the mother’s blood, which supplies it with sufficient quantities of iron, calcium and other essential nutrients. In time, the two cells, which initially united, develop into a bundle of cells, like a lump of flesh. Then this “lump” begins to acquire a definite and recognisable shape, and the various organs and parts of the body begin to grow in the appropriate places: the eyes, ears, brain, heart, bones and muscles are all developing as and where they should. The embryo then acquires life, and begins to develop senses. When the embryo has at last developed into a fully formed human infant, the small workshop of the womb delivers it to the outside world, to begin independent life. These “uterine workshops” are delivering millions of new infants everyday, but every single one is different from the others – in appearance, voice, disposition and potential. Even “identical” twins will have some important differences, and will never be one hundred percent identical. This is indeed a marvel, which staggers the imagination.
And indeed We created man (Adam) out of an extract of clay (water and earth). (TMQ 23:12)
Thereafter We made him (the offspring of Adam) as a Nutfah (mixed drops of the male and female sexual discharge) (and lodged it) in a safe lodging (womb of the woman). (TMQ 23:13)
Then We made the Nutfah into a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood), then We made the clot into a little lump of flesh, then We made out of that little lump of flesh bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, and then We brought it forth as another creation. So blessed be God, the Best of creators. (TMQ 23:14)
After that, surely, you will die. (TMQ 23:15)
Only a person who is out of his mind could believe that the whole wonderful system of life and the universe, which has continued for countless centuries and generations, could have come into existence without the agency of a wise, all-knowing and all-powerful God.