– Dr. Farrukh Adnan
There are followers of different religions in the world, and all of them believe that the religion they are following is the right one. The biggest role in this belief is played by “Astha” and “Partha” passed down from their ancestors. Ever since humans came into the world, they have gradually progressed, discovered new things, observed the world around them carefully, and understood it. However, the scientific revolution led them to believe that humans were first monkeys and then gradually modified into human form, which is the theory of evolution.
Fourteen centuries ago, Allah revealed a book to His last Prophet ﷺ that explained the inception of humans, their being sent into the world, the coming into existence of the universe, and many observations that passed in the universe long ago and that were seen by the previous nations.
If humans consider their own existence and creation by Allah, they can get very close to their creator, but atheism has played a very important role in alienating humans from their Lord. Atheism rejects the belief that any Creator of the world exists. However, how is it possible that an explosion (big bang) can lead to such a great creation? Everything that we can see with our naked eyes is created in a highly disciplined manner without a single defect. If we observe our surroundings, we see that everything has a definite time and action.
The Atheist Logic
“He created you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, within three darknesses. That is Allah, your Lord; to Him belongs dominion” (39:6).
Dr. Israr Ahmad writes in the commentary on this verse that the process of creating a child in the mother’s womb takes place within three curtains. The first curtain is the outer wall of the stomach, called the abdominal wall. The second membrane is the thick wall of the uterus, while the third membrane is the membrane inside the uterus that wraps the baby, called the placenta. The Qur’an spoke of these three veils 14 centuries ago, at a time when human knowledge about embryology was almost nonexistent. It is for this reason that Dr. Keith L. Moore, who is considered a world authority on embryology, has admitted that the information provided by the Qur’an about the knowledge of the foetus is truly astonishing and that the interpretation of the different stages of human creation inside the mother’s womb is not possible better than the interpretation given by the Quran. However, Allah creates humans within three veils. He makes their organs and forms them as He likes.
As much as science is progressing in this era, it is somewhere pointing towards the Creator of this world. In Fi Zilal ul Quran, the commentator writes that the most plausible theory regarding the creation of the large oceans on Earth, whose water evaporates and falls on the earth as rain, is that these oceans were first created in the sky and then fell on the ground.
“Man created James Webb Telescope which can take these beautiful photos of the universe which no one created”- A Random Atheist
“And We fixed the mountains on the earth so it would not slide down with them and made wide paths in it so that these people may find their way.” (21:31)
All the large mountains that we see are fixed deep inside the earth. If these were not there, the earth would collapse and its systems would be disrupted. Can these systems come into being with an explosion?
“He is the one who made the sun shine and the moon shine and set the stages of the moon’s waxing precisely so that you can calculate the years and dates from it. Allah has made all this, not as a game but with a purpose. He is revealing His signs to those who have knowledge.” (10:05)
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This system has been in place for centuries and has not changed. How can an explosion be so organised? Even if you burn a small firecracker, its components are broken into pieces and scattered in the air. So how could such a large universe system have formed so efficiently due to an explosion?
Pondering over all these verses of the Quran, we conclude that atheism, which bases itself on science, is reduced to a corner when its own base is submitting to the Quran.
