Assume that you are going to set up a big city by bringing
millions of Lego pieces together. Let there be in this city skyscrapers,
twisting roads, railway stations, airports, shopping malls, subways and also
rivers, lakes, forests and a beach. Let there also be living in it
thousands of people wandering in its streets, sitting in their homes and
working in their offices. You will take every detail into account.
Even the traffic lights, box offices, and the signboards at the bus
stations.
If someone came up to you and said that all the Lego pieces
of this city, which you had established by planning it right down to the
smallest detail, each piece of which you had picked up and set down with great
pains, had been brought together by coincidence to produce it, what would you
think of the mental state of that person?
Now, go back to the city you have built and consider that if
you had forgotten to put into place even a single Lego piece, or changed its
place, the whole city may collapse; leveled to the ground. Can you
imagine what great balance and order you have had to establish in order to make
it stable?
Life in the world where we live is also made possible by the
accumulation of such a great number of details that they are incomprehensible
to the human mind. The absence of even one of these details might mean
the end of life on the earth.
Everything, every detail from the atom, the smallest unit of
matter, to the galaxies harboring billions of stars; from the moon, an
inseparable adjunct of the world, to the solar system; all work in a perfect
harmony. This well-organized system runs flawlessly, just like a watch.
People are so confident that this billions-of-years-old system will go on
functioning - without leaving out even the smallest detail - that they can
freely make plans about something they think will be realized in the next 10
years. No one is worried about whether the sun will rise the next day.
A great majority of people do not think about 'whether the world may ever
chance to break free from the gravitation of the sun and start to move towards
the unknown in the pitch-dark space'; nor do many ask, 'What keeps these
disasters from happening?'.
In the same manner, when people are about to sleep, they are
very confident that their hearts or respiratory systems will not relax as their
brains do. However, even a few seconds' halt in any one of these two
vital systems may well cause results that will cost one's life.
When the 'glasses of familiarity' which surround the whole
of life and cause every event to be assessed as if 'it is taking place in its
natural course' are taken off, one is free to see that everything is made up of
such closely interdependent, meticulously planned systems that it is as if we
were hanging on to life by the skin of our teeth. You will notice an
excellent order prevailing in every spot you turn your eyes on.
Certainly, there is a great power that creates such an order
and harmony. The possessor of this great power is God, Who created everything
out of nothing. In a verse of the Quran, God says:
“He Who has created seven heavens in full harmony with one
another: no incongruity will you see in the creation of the Most
Gracious. And turn your vision (upon it) once more: can you see any flaw?
Yea, turn your vision (upon it) again and yet again: (and every time) your
vision will fall back upon you, dazzled and truly defeated.” (Quran 67:3-4)
When we look at the living beings in the heavens, on the
earth and in all that lies between them, we see that they all prove the
existence of their Creator in their own right. So I suggest we all take a
moment to reflect on the natural phenomena and living beings that every one
sees, yet never thinks about, and how they have come into being and continue
their existence. If we were to write down all the signs of God in the
universe, they would fill many thousands of volumes of encyclopedias… for God
Exists.
To Him is due the origin of the heavens and the earth, and
His existence can be known through reason.
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