Do We Need Proof about The Existence Of Allah? 3/3)
Abdul-Rahman As-Sungiri
Five Unseen Things
Now we are going to discuss a unique miracle i.e., the five Unseen aspects of knowledge which belongs only to Allah and is stated in the following verse:
“Verily the knowledge of the Hour is with Allah (Alone). It is He Who sends down rain, and He Who knows what is in the wombs, nor does anyone know what it is that he will earn on the morrow, nor does anyone know in what land he is to die. Verily with Allah is full knowledge and He is acquainted (with all things).” (Surah Luqman: 34)
The five Unseen things still only belong to Allah's knowledge and Glory until now.
Science might be able to calculate an approximate time for the beginning of the creation of the earth, but it can never specify the end. The knowledge of the Hour pertains only to Allah. Rain is also mentioned in the verse as an aspect of the Unseen. We have mentioned earlier that the science could not ******* the motion of clouds. If it could do so, it might turn the barren deserts into green gardens to solve the problem of starvation that plagues two-thirds of the inhabitants of the world in Asia, Africa and South America. Although the world witness great progress in the scientific and medical fields, they are still ignorant concerning the mysteries of wombs.
In one of the American hospitals in Boston they found out that they can disclose the *** of the embryo after being created when analyzing the excrements of the mother's womb and by using ultra sound technology. However, what is meant in the verse is that Allah knows what is in the wombs (when being created).
No sooner did this discovery glare than it lost its glamour. This is because the phase of pregnancy is still unknown regardless of their unsettled scientific suggestion and supposition. They specify an approximate range of tune between the maximal and minimal pregnancy, but this differs from mother to mother, from a natural birth to caesarean one or from one country to another. They are, actually, still conducting experiments to determine definitely the term of pregnancy? All predictions, despite using computers and ultra sound; are still just suggestions and suppositions. As for the knowledge of forthcoming earning, the Man cannot predict what he shall gain, despite the vast progress in the field of mathematics and statistics which are expected to predict the future of the industries and technology. No one, however intelligent scientist he is, will know what he shall gain.
No one knows when or where he will die. Although we achieved great progress in the field of hygiene and could predict the average of life expectancy. It is also difficult to predict that a specific disease will attack a man during the course of his life in order that he could be vaccinated against them.
Man can never know where he will die. Once, there was a wealthy Lebanese man called Emil Al-Bustani. He used to ridicule everything even death. All people were amazed at his property and wealth. At the beginning of his life Emil was so poor that he would walk many miles in order to save the price of a loaf of bread to feed his mother. Afterwards, he became prosperous and a famous millionaire. Emil wished to ridicule death, therefore, he built a luxurious grave. This grave still exists in Lebanon until now. He bought very expensive marble from Italy to build his grave, he spent hundreds of thousands sterling pounds to make it an everlasting monument. On his birthday he used to invite his friends to celebrate in the grave and they would drink wine until the break of day. Further, he asked them to commemorate his birthday annually. He foolishly said to them, "I will drink and celebrate with you even after death." After some time, Emil was on a flight, and the plane had an accident and fell in the sea. All the corpses of the dead were found except Emil's. Today, if someone wants to visit Lebanon he will find the grave, but Emil's corpse stays in the sea within the fish stomachs.
Chance and Nature
Allah the Almighty says:
“Were they created of nothing or were they themselves the creators.” (Surah At-Tur: 35)
Many atheists believed that nature created Man and granted him reason. Unfortunately, we heard such allegations from some teachers when we were young since the time of the First World war and after that as well. Those teachers were the disciples of the western civilizations of London and Paris. They thought that when they believed in such allegations they would be described as illuminated. This term (illuminated) is equal to the term "progressive" nowadays. Every age has its terms by which the people are deceived.
As I got older I asked, 'what is nature? They answered: nature is chance, the law of probabilities. I commented, "Do you know how this can be exemplified? It can be exemplified as follows:
Two people were lost in the desert. Then, they passed by a big palace with decorated walls, precious carpets and expensive clocks. Meanwhile, one of them said, someone has built this palace and furnished it. But the other told him that he is just a radical and uncivilized person. This was made by chance. How? The first man asked. The second said, "There were stones and then came the flood, wind, weather and other forces of the nature, thus the stones accumulated, as years and centuries passed the stones became a wall by chance. What about the carpets? He was asked. The other answered, "It was just some sheep whose wool was removed by the air and it came together, then ****ls mixed themselves to it. Therefore, they had the color and interested until it became such corpse. What about the clocks? He said, "They are just iron which was exposed to the factors of the weather and was cut into pieces and circles. The circles and pieces of this iron come together as shown in this form.
Another example is: what if someone told us that a publishing house has a cost of characters sufficient to compose a book. Then a violent earthquake shook the house. The characters were dropped on one another and a book was composed by chance. The book was composed in a good manner, containing chapters and sections that tackle various scientific fields. Similarly, when someone assumes that I saw a blind man who was given a thousand needles and they asked him after they had inserted a needle in a plate before him to throw the needles one by one on the condition that the needles must enter the eyes of one another and he was successful. Can you or any rational man believe these two examples? This is of course impossible and incredible, hence, how could they believe that the universe and all what it contains was created by chance or spontaneity?
How could a man who believes in such false allegations be counted as sane?
Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) when arguing that nature is itself an evidence for the Creator Most High, said, "I wonder about the arrogance of those who believe that they were created by nature, how can they believe that the deaths created the living beings." (Abu Bakr Al-Jaza’ri, The Creed of the Believer)
Further, Ibn Al-Qayyim said, "Poor infidel, you believe that this is created by nature and nature has many wonders and mysteries? Behold, if Allah wants to guide you, you may ask yourself: what is nature? Is it self-dependent? Does it have knowledge and power to do such wondrous actions or not? To believe that it is just a binding attribute to some ******? If the answer is nature is an independent entity that has knowledge, power, will and wisdom, you should put into your account that these are the attributes of Allah, the Creator, why do you call Him nature?
But if the answer is nature is just an attribute that needs a Supreme Power Who has all attributes, you should ask yourself, how could an entity that has no reason, power, wisdom or feeling perform such wondrous actions? This is surely insanity in the whole senses of the word.