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i am no scholar of islam but the questionas such have always drive me nuts. existense of universe, jins, 7 heavens, miraj of Muhammad pbuh, splitting of moon.
I have posted a presentation on the subject of splitting of moon on the thread at
http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9828
See Allah created everything no doudt. we live in 4 dimensional world. X,Y Z and time. people Time is the invention of Allah. we always tend to think evrything has a begining and end But that does not imply to Allah becase he created the time. So if its a creation and u can see from somewhere where time has no meaning then u see everything has happened or happening or will happen. this is where devine decree comes from. Allah knows everything becasue everything has happened already as He Willed
Exactly, we can feel 4 dimensions only i.e. space (x,y,z dimension) and time. No doubt there are higher dimesion as well and that is the reason we cant see Jinn, Angles etc As soon as we start to die some of the dimensions will open and we will start to see the Angle of Death.
Quran is NOT a book of SCIENCE:
Quran is not a book of Science but the book of Signs and Guidance. Which means if you want to study Zoology, Biology, and Chemistry, Physics or Astronomy etc this is not the book to be referred to.
Nor it was logical that God to have spoken to people 1400 years before about red blood cells, photosynthesis, E=mc^2 or Electrons etc. God spoke to the people in the language they could understand well. Gave them examples from their daily life (as par with their intellect level), so that they can understand, believe and carry the message forward to the coming generations, until they are intellectually able to observe "God Signs" everywhere (in their body, earth and heavens etc).
That’s why God said:
Soon will We show them
Our Signs in the (furthest) Regions, and
In their own souls, until
It becomes manifest to them
That this is the Truth
Is it not enough that
Thy Lord doth witness
All things?
[Surah: 41: 53]
However, what ever is there in Quran about science is not contradicting with it. What have been just discovered recently was already referred to either directly or indirectly in the Holy Quran more than 1400 years ago, hence it makes open minded person think that Quran could not have come from any human or ordinary source. To know some of such signs visit
www.islam-guide.com
Quran is a book of SIGNS (of GOD):
Islam encourages science and the acquisition of knowledge with absolutely no contradiction between the Quranic revelation and the scientific facts. However, the Quran carries a divine message and guidance from God to all mankind, it is not a scientific book nor the faith of Muslims is conditionally based upon whether or not scientific fact coincides with what is found in the Quran. It is just viewed as a confirmation of what was already held as true and it may also be a clarification of those matters which may have been beyond the scope of human knowledge at any given time.
Where is God?
If we want to know how a product (say your computer) was manufactured, you should have seen its all the stages of manufacturing, from beginning to the end, so that you will know what all processes and hand were involved. Inside the computer you can’t find person who assembled it. Similarly, sculpturist can't be found inside the sculpture, as both are two separate entities.
Therefore to find the creator we must:
1. search him not inside the creation but outside the creation.
2. have seen all the stages of creation, from start to end so that we can declare that we have seen the creator.
But if the creation is finished and the product is in our hand we can neither see the creator any more nor we can find him inside the object. Now we are left with only two options:
1. Either object has been created by someone or
2. It has appeared on his own.
Similarly, our eyes have not witnessed the beginning and the end of universe. In fact we are living our life of "few moments or lesser" in comparison to the total time involved. So how we can know our creator and find him? Only Logic and Patience will give us the answer!
Creator Is Powerful Than Its Creation:
Carpenter is powerful than the chair he makes, Cobbler is powerful than the shoes he makes, baker is powerful than the cake he makes but how comes a nuclear scientist is not as powerful as an atomic bomb?
If bomb have no exploding power atomic bomb is not as powerful as the scientist. The explosion happens by the release of huge amount of energy present in the uranium atoms (chain reaction). Since the scientist did not created the atoms and the energy present in them he is not powerful than bomb.
Example: Suppose if you make an apparatus with some measuring instruments and a naked electrical wire and ask someone to touch the live wire (who have no idea what is this all about), he is surely going to get a fatal shock. However, if you were asked to do the same thing, you will either wear good insulated gloves or even switch line off before doing it. Your action was based upon your knowledge about your apparatus (including amount voltage, ampere and ohms).
So we see that in order for the creator to be powerful than his creation following are needed:
1. He must be all-aware of creation’s attributes.
2. He must wisely design and create it.
God says that all his creation (including time, space, blackholes, stars, planets, vegetation, human etc etc) he has created wisely and with extraordinary power.
For to Allah belong
The Forces of the heavens
And the Earth; And Allah is
Exalted in Power,
Full of Wisdom
[Surah: 48:7]
He is Irresistibly Supreme
Over His servants
And He is the Wise,
Acquainted with all things
[Surah: 6:18 ]
God Also tells us in Quran that he produced his creation in due proportions and with complete measurement (& has full control over them).
…Allah has appointed a measure for all things
[Surah: at-Talaq: 3)
…He created everything and determined it most exactly
[Surah: al-Furqan: 2)
Everything has measure with Him, the Knower of the Unseen
And the Visible, the Most Great, the High-Exalted
[Surah: ar-R’ad: 8-9)
Creator Is Not Sitting Inside His Creation:
Concept that creator is physically present his creation will cause some one to ask that what will happen to creator if the creation itself is destroyed? It’s not the creator who sits inside the creation but his intelligence and knowledge (by which he know his creation far better than the creation know itself).
It was We Who
Created man, and We know
What suggestions his soul
Makes to him: for We
Are nearer to him
Than (his) Jugular vein.
[Surah: 50: 16]
Limitations Of Human Brain:
Human brain, which weighs about few 100 grams is like a formatted hard disk when he is born. Whatever he experience (see, smell, hear or taste etc) is stored in his brain as information. Our all decisions and conclusions are based on that stored information.
Suppose a baby is told in his mother's womb that after the birth he will be transferred to another world. This new world will be a very big space where he will find big mountains, rivers, clouds, seas, trees, flowers, fruits, all type of foods, bus, ships, airplanes, millions of other people...., it will be hard for the baby to believe, because his conclusion will be based on what he has seen to the date.
Similarly our conclusion on this earth are based upon what we experience here unless God himself guide us about "unseen". From the time of the creation of man God has guided him. God also tells us that after the death we are going to meet him and it is his promise about hereafter which will not be broken.
…. Allah promise is the truth, And whose word can be Truer than Allah’s?
[Sruah: 4:122]
Wasalam
