Glory be to Allah. Who has created us in a form of submission to Him.
Fetus is initially moving, kicking around highly active and displaying a normal fetal status.
Recitation of Quran turned on. The fetus changes position, with its occipit now facing the abdominal wall, the head flexes and it nearly stops all activity for as long as the Quran goes on. Amazingly calm, submissive and assumes the prostation position. The positioning towards the end is exactly how the Muslim prayer prostation takes place. Praise be to Allah whose words captivate all of creation. He is the All knowing. The One to Whom all submit.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Imam Ghazali on the Quran
The image of the Qur'an as an ocean is a particularly popular one, as in this quote from the Jawāhir al-Qur'ān of Abū al-Ghazali."
"I will rouse you from your sleep, you who have given yourself up to recitation, who have taken the study of the Qur'an as a practice, who have seized upon some of its outward meanings and sentences. How long will you wander about the shore of the sea with your eyes closed to its wonders? Was it not for you to sail through its depths in order to see its amazing things, to travel to its islands to pick its delicacies, to dive to its bottom and become rich from obtaining its jewels? Don't you despise yourself for losing out on its pearls and jewels as you continue to look only to its shores and esoteric aspects? Haven't you heard that the Qur'an is an ocean from which the knowledge of all ages branches out just as rivers and streams branch out from the shores of the ocean?Don't you envy the happiness of people who have plunged into its overflowing waves and seized red sulfur, who have dived into its depths and taken out red rubies, shining pearls and green chrysolite, who have roamed its shores and gathered gray ambergris and fresh blooming aloes wood, who have clung to its islands and found an abundance in their animals of the greatest antidote and pungent musk?"
"I will rouse you from your sleep, you who have given yourself up to recitation, who have taken the study of the Qur'an as a practice, who have seized upon some of its outward meanings and sentences. How long will you wander about the shore of the sea with your eyes closed to its wonders? Was it not for you to sail through its depths in order to see its amazing things, to travel to its islands to pick its delicacies, to dive to its bottom and become rich from obtaining its jewels? Don't you despise yourself for losing out on its pearls and jewels as you continue to look only to its shores and esoteric aspects? Haven't you heard that the Qur'an is an ocean from which the knowledge of all ages branches out just as rivers and streams branch out from the shores of the ocean?Don't you envy the happiness of people who have plunged into its overflowing waves and seized red sulfur, who have dived into its depths and taken out red rubies, shining pearls and green chrysolite, who have roamed its shores and gathered gray ambergris and fresh blooming aloes wood, who have clung to its islands and found an abundance in their animals of the greatest antidote and pungent musk?"
Friday, August 15, 2008
Quran precedes medical guidelines of today by centuries
WHO Recommendation in 21st centuryWHO strongly recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life. At six months, other foods should complement breastfeeding for up to two years or more [Ten facts of Breastfeeding 2008, WHO*]
Quran Revealation in the 7th Century
Allah gives the best advice regarding breastfeeding.
“Mothers shall breastfeed their children for two whole years, for such as desire to complete the term ......." ( 2:233)
When Allah the most Wise gives the most perfect guidelines mankind refuse to follow and obey. Only when human organizations after centuries of research come up with the same conclusion that breastfeeding should continue for up to 2 years for the best optimal health of the baby and child then men appreciate the truth and acknowledge Allah's wisdom.
As in the guideline given for breastfeeding all other commands and recommendations from Allah serve as the most perfect guidelines for societies in this world and for individuals because Allah created us and He knows best what our problems are and what the solutions are.
*http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/breastfeeding/en/index.html
Retrieved - August 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
Excellent Article Authored By Harun Yahya (www.harunyahya.com)
PURITY OF HEART: AN INVALID EXCUSE MADE FROM WORLDLY DESIRES
It is the way that people suppress their consciences that prevents most of them genuinely turning to Allah and that keeps them from abiding by the moral values commanded by Him.
“My heart is pure, so Allah will forgive me.” We often hear such words from those around us. This highly distorted logic that in fact consists of an excuse made up by people themselves is used in order to suppress the voice of the conscience. What does this “purity of heart” actually mean? According to Qur’anic moral values, is “not doing anyone any harm” sufficient justification for ignoring the responsibilities revealed to us by Allah?
The Purity of Heart told in the Qur’an
We are informed in the Qur'an that Allah considers people's hearts, as He reveals in "But only he [will prosper] who brings to Allah a sound heart." (Surat ash-Shu’ara, 89) The Qur'anic concept of a "sound heart" is not the pureness of heart that some people understand it to be, for the Qur'an defines a sound heart as turning to and submitting fully to Allah.
People with sound hearts, in the Qur'anic sense, have faith in Allah, observe the limits and prohibitions that He has established, and submit to Him fully. In the Islamic sense, there is no other form of a sound heart, for the Qur'an defines a person with a sound heart as someone who constantly brings Allah to mind and feels at peace with His remembrance. The following verse makes this quite clear:
Those who believe and whose hearts find peace in the remembrance of Allah. Only in the remembrance of Allah can the heart find peace. (Surat Ar-Rad, 13:28)
In another verse, Allah describes believers as those "whose hearts quake at the mention of Allah" (Surat Al-Hajj, 35).
A very important characteristic of believers is sensitivity of the heart that enables them to derive pleasure from the Qur'an's morality and to feel a great pleasure and peace in obeying Allah. Allah describes this sensitivity as "Allah's guidance":
Allah has sent down the Supreme Discourse, a Book consistent in its frequent repetitions. The skins of those who fear their Lord tremble at it, and then their skins and hearts yield softly to the remembrance of Allah. That is Allah's guidance, by which He guides whoever He wills... (Surat Az-Zumar, 23)
Consequently, a truly sound heart in the Islamic context means a heart that is purified from all forms of impurity that draw one away from Allah. Such people stay away from worldly greed, selfishness, fears, and insecurity. As a result, they do not become attached to any person or thing other than Allah or feel a type of love for them that is independent of Allah.
The Purity of Heart Put Forward by People
It is of course important and excellent for someone to be known in the community for “being good and having a pure heart.” However, basing oneself on the importance in society of “having a pure heart” and then saying, “I do no harm to anyone, and even help them on occasion, when necessary,” does not mean that one is fully living by the moral values of the Qur’an. In addition, thinking in that way is nothing more than self-deception. An act or an attitude that is accepted as a good deed by a society remote from the Quran’ic morality, although it is not based upon the Qur'an's values, may not be worthy in Allah's sight. The main criterion that renders a deed good and worthy in His sight is the degree of its conformity with Allah’s good pleasure. The following verses are quite explanatory:
Do you make the giving of water to the pilgrims and looking after the Masjid al-Haram the same as having iman in Allah and the Last Day and doing jihad in the Way of Allah? They are not equal in the sight of Allah. Allah does not guide wrongdoing people. (Surat At-Tawba, 19)
It is not devoutness to turn your faces to the East or to the West. Rather, those with true devoutness are those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, the Angels, the Book and the Prophets, and who, despite their love for it, give away their wealth to their relatives and to orphans and the very poor, and to travellers and beggars and to set slaves free, and who establish prayer and pay alms; those who honour their contracts when they make them, and are steadfast in poverty and illness and in battle. Those are the people who are true. They are the people who guard against evil. (Surat Al-Bakara, 177)
Allah’s Approval and Fear of Him Are The Bases of Qur’anic Moral Values
The Basis of the Moral Values of the Quran is the Approval and Fear of Allah
People may be known as “good” by giving food to animals they see in the street or getting along well with their neighbors. And this is of course good behavior. But the way to avoid eternal suffering in Hell, the way to attain the approval and mercy of Allah, lies not in being known as “a good person,” but in being a true believer in the manner described by Allah in the Qur’an.
As stated at the outset, there can be no question of someone who fails to fully submit to our Almighty Lord and to abide by the requirements of Islamic moral values having “purity of heart.” Those who live by the logic of “my heart is pure, so there is no need for me to completely adhere to the requirements of religious moral values” and who persist in that way of thinking may imagine that they thus deceive other people, but they are in fact only deceiving themselves. Saying such a thing is the mistaken mentality of someone who avoids fully adhering to the moral requirements of the Qur’an and who seeks to portray a mistaken lifestyle as being a Muslim one. Such insincere attitudes can never be acceptable. Because Allah is He Who knows what lies concealed in people’s hearts. We are told in one verse from the Qur’an that, …Allah knows what your hearts contain. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 119)
Living by Qur’anic moral values bestows freedom from worldly values and all forms of dependence felt towards other people. A believer with such moral values seeks the approval of Allah, not that of other people. He fears Allah alone and knows that all things are under His control. Fear leads him to scrupulously adhere to the bounds set by Allah and silences all excuses proffered by worldly desires. The awed respect felt for Allah and the sincere efforts made to attain His approval are the basis of Qur’anic moral values. Almighty Allah has revealed this as follows:
Who is better: someone who founds his building on fear of Allah and His good pleasure, or someone who founds his building on the brink of a crumbling precipice so that it collapses with him into the Fire of Hell? Allah does not love wrongdoers. (Surat At-Tawba, 109)
It is the way that people suppress their consciences that prevents most of them genuinely turning to Allah and that keeps them from abiding by the moral values commanded by Him.
“My heart is pure, so Allah will forgive me.” We often hear such words from those around us. This highly distorted logic that in fact consists of an excuse made up by people themselves is used in order to suppress the voice of the conscience. What does this “purity of heart” actually mean? According to Qur’anic moral values, is “not doing anyone any harm” sufficient justification for ignoring the responsibilities revealed to us by Allah?
The Purity of Heart told in the Qur’an
We are informed in the Qur'an that Allah considers people's hearts, as He reveals in "But only he [will prosper] who brings to Allah a sound heart." (Surat ash-Shu’ara, 89) The Qur'anic concept of a "sound heart" is not the pureness of heart that some people understand it to be, for the Qur'an defines a sound heart as turning to and submitting fully to Allah.
People with sound hearts, in the Qur'anic sense, have faith in Allah, observe the limits and prohibitions that He has established, and submit to Him fully. In the Islamic sense, there is no other form of a sound heart, for the Qur'an defines a person with a sound heart as someone who constantly brings Allah to mind and feels at peace with His remembrance. The following verse makes this quite clear:
Those who believe and whose hearts find peace in the remembrance of Allah. Only in the remembrance of Allah can the heart find peace. (Surat Ar-Rad, 13:28)
In another verse, Allah describes believers as those "whose hearts quake at the mention of Allah" (Surat Al-Hajj, 35).
A very important characteristic of believers is sensitivity of the heart that enables them to derive pleasure from the Qur'an's morality and to feel a great pleasure and peace in obeying Allah. Allah describes this sensitivity as "Allah's guidance":
Allah has sent down the Supreme Discourse, a Book consistent in its frequent repetitions. The skins of those who fear their Lord tremble at it, and then their skins and hearts yield softly to the remembrance of Allah. That is Allah's guidance, by which He guides whoever He wills... (Surat Az-Zumar, 23)
Consequently, a truly sound heart in the Islamic context means a heart that is purified from all forms of impurity that draw one away from Allah. Such people stay away from worldly greed, selfishness, fears, and insecurity. As a result, they do not become attached to any person or thing other than Allah or feel a type of love for them that is independent of Allah.
The Purity of Heart Put Forward by People
It is of course important and excellent for someone to be known in the community for “being good and having a pure heart.” However, basing oneself on the importance in society of “having a pure heart” and then saying, “I do no harm to anyone, and even help them on occasion, when necessary,” does not mean that one is fully living by the moral values of the Qur’an. In addition, thinking in that way is nothing more than self-deception. An act or an attitude that is accepted as a good deed by a society remote from the Quran’ic morality, although it is not based upon the Qur'an's values, may not be worthy in Allah's sight. The main criterion that renders a deed good and worthy in His sight is the degree of its conformity with Allah’s good pleasure. The following verses are quite explanatory:
Do you make the giving of water to the pilgrims and looking after the Masjid al-Haram the same as having iman in Allah and the Last Day and doing jihad in the Way of Allah? They are not equal in the sight of Allah. Allah does not guide wrongdoing people. (Surat At-Tawba, 19)
It is not devoutness to turn your faces to the East or to the West. Rather, those with true devoutness are those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, the Angels, the Book and the Prophets, and who, despite their love for it, give away their wealth to their relatives and to orphans and the very poor, and to travellers and beggars and to set slaves free, and who establish prayer and pay alms; those who honour their contracts when they make them, and are steadfast in poverty and illness and in battle. Those are the people who are true. They are the people who guard against evil. (Surat Al-Bakara, 177)
Allah’s Approval and Fear of Him Are The Bases of Qur’anic Moral Values
The Basis of the Moral Values of the Quran is the Approval and Fear of Allah
People may be known as “good” by giving food to animals they see in the street or getting along well with their neighbors. And this is of course good behavior. But the way to avoid eternal suffering in Hell, the way to attain the approval and mercy of Allah, lies not in being known as “a good person,” but in being a true believer in the manner described by Allah in the Qur’an.
As stated at the outset, there can be no question of someone who fails to fully submit to our Almighty Lord and to abide by the requirements of Islamic moral values having “purity of heart.” Those who live by the logic of “my heart is pure, so there is no need for me to completely adhere to the requirements of religious moral values” and who persist in that way of thinking may imagine that they thus deceive other people, but they are in fact only deceiving themselves. Saying such a thing is the mistaken mentality of someone who avoids fully adhering to the moral requirements of the Qur’an and who seeks to portray a mistaken lifestyle as being a Muslim one. Such insincere attitudes can never be acceptable. Because Allah is He Who knows what lies concealed in people’s hearts. We are told in one verse from the Qur’an that, …Allah knows what your hearts contain. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 119)
Living by Qur’anic moral values bestows freedom from worldly values and all forms of dependence felt towards other people. A believer with such moral values seeks the approval of Allah, not that of other people. He fears Allah alone and knows that all things are under His control. Fear leads him to scrupulously adhere to the bounds set by Allah and silences all excuses proffered by worldly desires. The awed respect felt for Allah and the sincere efforts made to attain His approval are the basis of Qur’anic moral values. Almighty Allah has revealed this as follows:
Who is better: someone who founds his building on fear of Allah and His good pleasure, or someone who founds his building on the brink of a crumbling precipice so that it collapses with him into the Fire of Hell? Allah does not love wrongdoers. (Surat At-Tawba, 109)
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
THE TRUE TEACHINGS OF JESUS
And when Jesus came with the Clear Signs, he said, "I have come to you with Wisdom and to clarify for you some of the things about which you have differed. Therefore fear God and obey me. God is my Lord and your Lord so worship Him. This is a straight path." (Qur'an, 43:63-64)
I come confirming the Torah I find already there, and to make lawful for you some of what was previously forbidden to you. I have brought you a Sign from your Lord. So fear God and obey me. God is my Lord and your Lord so worship Him. That is a straight path." (Qur'an, 3:50-51)
I come confirming the Torah I find already there, and to make lawful for you some of what was previously forbidden to you. I have brought you a Sign from your Lord. So fear God and obey me. God is my Lord and your Lord so worship Him. That is a straight path." (Qur'an, 3:50-51)
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Alcohol and the wisdom in its Prohibiton in Islam
'Excessive alcohol consumption not only brings costs in terms of personal health, but tangible social costs in terms of lost productivity, health care costs, road accident costs and crime-related costs that have been estimated at $10.8 billion in 2004-05.'*(Australia's Health 2008)
Surah 5 of the Quran
Verse 91: Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from prayer: will ye not then abstain?
Verse 92: Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and beware (of evil): if ye do turn back, know ye that it is Our Messengers duty to proclaim (the message) in the clearest manner.
Sayings of the prophet
-Tariq ibn Suwayd or Suwayd ibn Tariq asked the Prophet(pbuh) about wine, but he forbade it. He again asked him, but he forbade him. He said to him: Prophet of Allah, it is a medicine. The prophet(pbuh) said No its a disease.
-Allah's Messenger (pbuh) cursed ten people in connection with wine: the wine-presser, the one who has it pressed, the one who drinks it, the one who conveys it, the one to whom it is conveyed, the one who serves it, the one who sells it, the one who benefits from the price paid for it, the one who buys it, and the one for whom it is bought.
Just for comparison sake, 10.8 billion dollar represents 1/3 of the Kenyan or Sri Lankan Total Economy or the Total Combined Economy of Cape Verde, Eritrea, Bhutan, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Maldives, Burundi, Djibouti, Liberia, Seychelles, Gambia, Zimbabwe.
If only
*
http://www.aihw.gov.au/mediacentre/2008/mr20080624.cfm
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
ANTELOPE SKULL
Age: 83 million years
Period: Cretaceous
Location: He Zheng, Gan Su, China
If evolutionist claims were true, then there should once have been a very odd creature bearing features of both the antelope and some other life form(from which the antelope will have derived). These animals, of which there is no trace in the fossil record, should immediately be identifiable, due to their sharing characteristics belonging to two different species, and should also exhibit an example of the supposed forebear-descendent relationship claimed by evolutionists. Yet not one single such intermediate form has ever been exhibited in evolutionist publications, which are filled with countless other myths and fictitious scenarios.
That is because no such fossil exists. And that is in turn because no such life form ever existed at any time.
Like the 83-million-year-old antelope in the picture, all living things have come down to the present day in exactly the same form in which they were first created. Natural history refutes evolutionist claims.
The above is copied directly from: [http://www.harunyahya.com/books/darwinism/
atlas_creation_III/atlas_creation_III_02.php]
Read more to uncover the truth that all living things were did not evolve and have been in existent millions of years ago without ever undoing changes in their appearance or physical characteristics. Thousands and Thousands of fossils screaming out that we never evolved.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
A Human Mandible Aged 2.3 Million Years. Another example showing the invalidity of the imaginary family tree devised by evolutionists: a human mandible aged 2.3 million years. This mandible coded A.L. 666-1 was unearthed in Hadar, Ethiopia. Evolutionist publications seek to gloss it over by referring to it as "a very startling discovery"... (D. Johanson, Blake Edgar, From Lucy to Language, p.169)Extracted from:http://www.harunyahya.com/books/darwinism/atlas_creation/atlas_creation_18.php
Read the enitre tale of Human Evolution......
Saturday, May 31, 2008
The Murdered and the Murderer
Does Allah determine the murdered person and the murderer since He alone can determine the time of death?
This is the explanation according to my reasoning within Islamic teaching.
Allah chooses amongst the evil people (a person who at that point in time of the murder action has accumulated a high level of evilness and sins, a rebellious person who doesnt heed Allah and does whatever his desires tells him to do) to act out his evilness by killing the person for whom Allah has decreed death.
In that way Allah determines the time and mode of death of the person murdered but is not the one responsible for the evil murder action. The action of murder in islam is a product of a disease i.e the disease of being evil throughout ones life and having a corrupt soul (same goes for the action of rape, child abuse, theft e.t.c). At the moment of commiting the murder his conscience can never stop him because the disease of evil present in his heart will always overpower him. A major evil action is never the spur of the moment but rather a symptom of a chronic evil within the self stemming from a persistent history of living with corrupt ideas and beliefs.
For the innocent killed, his life term is completed (and he will be judged according to the good and bad in his term life and sent to paradise or hell accordingly) and the murderer (whos term is not yet expired) is an evil person who has manifested the symptoms of his corrupt and evil soul.
The murderer can persist on choosing decisions or beliefs which are evil until his life term ends or he can start reflecting on the evilness of his action and the disease in his heart which has caused him to do that murder(his conscience direct's him to reflect on all the sins and ignorance he has lived with in his life) and sincerely and persistently repent(meaning ask forgiveness from Allah and make a sincere resolution never to sin again and always be heedful to Allah).
"ALLAH knows best how death arrives, what time and in what mode"
This is the explanation according to my reasoning within Islamic teaching.
Allah chooses amongst the evil people (a person who at that point in time of the murder action has accumulated a high level of evilness and sins, a rebellious person who doesnt heed Allah and does whatever his desires tells him to do) to act out his evilness by killing the person for whom Allah has decreed death.
In that way Allah determines the time and mode of death of the person murdered but is not the one responsible for the evil murder action. The action of murder in islam is a product of a disease i.e the disease of being evil throughout ones life and having a corrupt soul (same goes for the action of rape, child abuse, theft e.t.c). At the moment of commiting the murder his conscience can never stop him because the disease of evil present in his heart will always overpower him. A major evil action is never the spur of the moment but rather a symptom of a chronic evil within the self stemming from a persistent history of living with corrupt ideas and beliefs.
For the innocent killed, his life term is completed (and he will be judged according to the good and bad in his term life and sent to paradise or hell accordingly) and the murderer (whos term is not yet expired) is an evil person who has manifested the symptoms of his corrupt and evil soul.
The murderer can persist on choosing decisions or beliefs which are evil until his life term ends or he can start reflecting on the evilness of his action and the disease in his heart which has caused him to do that murder(his conscience direct's him to reflect on all the sins and ignorance he has lived with in his life) and sincerely and persistently repent(meaning ask forgiveness from Allah and make a sincere resolution never to sin again and always be heedful to Allah).
"ALLAH knows best how death arrives, what time and in what mode"
Friday, May 30, 2008
ALLAH - The One and Only
(The Noble Quran - Surah Hashr)
23. Allah is He, other than Whom there is no other god, Who knows(all things) both secret and open; the Sovereign, the Holy One, the Source of Peace (and Perfection), the Guardian of Faith, the Preserver of Safety, the Exalted in Might, the Irresistible, the Supreme: Glory to Allah. (High is He) above all that they associate to Him.
24. He is Allah, the Creator, the Originator, the Bestower of Forms (or Colours). To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names: whatever is in the heavens and on earth, does declare His Praises and Glory: and He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
23. Allah is He, other than Whom there is no other god, Who knows(all things) both secret and open; the Sovereign, the Holy One, the Source of Peace (and Perfection), the Guardian of Faith, the Preserver of Safety, the Exalted in Might, the Irresistible, the Supreme: Glory to Allah. (High is He) above all that they associate to Him.
24. He is Allah, the Creator, the Originator, the Bestower of Forms (or Colours). To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names: whatever is in the heavens and on earth, does declare His Praises and Glory: and He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
Monday, May 26, 2008
The Truth of this World
Many a times people following scriptures are relegated by many as following 'blind faith', knowledge without evidence and without reasoning.
My simple answer is that we dont follow blind faith. For us our conviction in our scripture is gradual and multifactorial.
The main reason as to why we come to the conclusion that the Quran is absolute and a word from God is the fact that many a verses in this holy book convince men who ponder on it over time, that this book is impossible to be from a human being.
Some of the scientific amazements of the Quran which make it totally impossible for a man of the 7th century to have known except with Divine Revelation.
Beautifully sum up embryologic process which was only espoused in the 20th century when at that time even microscopes didnt exist.
That the universe is expanding when the fact of the universe expansion was only discovered in 20th century.
The health guideline of a total abstinence on alcohol recommended by most health care experts in the 21st century.
A verse which ends up proving the speed of light which was only accurately described in the 20th century.
Thus when we gradually get convinced of these scientific miracles and many others.
when gradually it becomes hard for us to accept the fact that the beautiful existent universe, butterflies, apples and grapes and all other millions of animals, plants, the seas and the stars, the perfect balance has come about simply by chance and has organized itself automatically and randomly without a supreme wisdom.
When we reason out that the laws of God as commanded by Him are the most perfect and just for mankind.
When we reason out that God tells us about the various psychological minds of men in perfect accuracy and we see it practically in our lives.
When we reason out that we have no control over anything in life unless God wills it. When both favourable and seemingly unfavourable events have good in them for the believer.
When God exhibits His total control over humans through trials of ill-health from him. The rheumatoid patient cannot open his hand, the advanced motor neuron disease patient cannot even flex his phalange. When a tiny virus has ability to completely devastate us. When the patient demented can't even take control of his thoughts. When the patient in coma cannot wake up. When death comes no one can stop it. Even if the best terminal care specialists in the world were all to get together and read all the books in the medical world and used all the most advanced laboratories and hospitals and equipment, they cannot stop death when it comes eventually.
This is when we get convinced that all men are disabled until God makes them able. All men live, move, speak, think, see and hear and feel thanks to God's grace. Every blessing can be appreciated better from examples in this world which God presents to make Himself clear.
The most developed of cities with the most advanced of hospitals and most educated of men face problems and consequences exist which no science is able to solve but which can only be solved by moral correction and belief in God. Suicide, depressions, anxiety, drug problems, alcohol related violence, crime, domestic violence. When statistics of these are read then it becomes clear of what state a society can be and at the same time claim to be at the forefront of human culture and advancement. The only solution to all problems is an Islamic awakening. Until and unless men dont fully submit themselves to God there is bound to be restlessness, fear and fruitless research into many spheres without any solutions.
My simple answer is that we dont follow blind faith. For us our conviction in our scripture is gradual and multifactorial.
The main reason as to why we come to the conclusion that the Quran is absolute and a word from God is the fact that many a verses in this holy book convince men who ponder on it over time, that this book is impossible to be from a human being.
Some of the scientific amazements of the Quran which make it totally impossible for a man of the 7th century to have known except with Divine Revelation.
Beautifully sum up embryologic process which was only espoused in the 20th century when at that time even microscopes didnt exist.
That the universe is expanding when the fact of the universe expansion was only discovered in 20th century.
The health guideline of a total abstinence on alcohol recommended by most health care experts in the 21st century.
A verse which ends up proving the speed of light which was only accurately described in the 20th century.
Thus when we gradually get convinced of these scientific miracles and many others.
when gradually it becomes hard for us to accept the fact that the beautiful existent universe, butterflies, apples and grapes and all other millions of animals, plants, the seas and the stars, the perfect balance has come about simply by chance and has organized itself automatically and randomly without a supreme wisdom.
When we reason out that the laws of God as commanded by Him are the most perfect and just for mankind.
When we reason out that God tells us about the various psychological minds of men in perfect accuracy and we see it practically in our lives.
When we reason out that we have no control over anything in life unless God wills it. When both favourable and seemingly unfavourable events have good in them for the believer.
When God exhibits His total control over humans through trials of ill-health from him. The rheumatoid patient cannot open his hand, the advanced motor neuron disease patient cannot even flex his phalange. When a tiny virus has ability to completely devastate us. When the patient demented can't even take control of his thoughts. When the patient in coma cannot wake up. When death comes no one can stop it. Even if the best terminal care specialists in the world were all to get together and read all the books in the medical world and used all the most advanced laboratories and hospitals and equipment, they cannot stop death when it comes eventually.
This is when we get convinced that all men are disabled until God makes them able. All men live, move, speak, think, see and hear and feel thanks to God's grace. Every blessing can be appreciated better from examples in this world which God presents to make Himself clear.
The most developed of cities with the most advanced of hospitals and most educated of men face problems and consequences exist which no science is able to solve but which can only be solved by moral correction and belief in God. Suicide, depressions, anxiety, drug problems, alcohol related violence, crime, domestic violence. When statistics of these are read then it becomes clear of what state a society can be and at the same time claim to be at the forefront of human culture and advancement. The only solution to all problems is an Islamic awakening. Until and unless men dont fully submit themselves to God there is bound to be restlessness, fear and fruitless research into many spheres without any solutions.
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