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This will in turn produce a terrible nuclear winter,
which will bring all human, animal and vegetable
existence to the verge of the most tragic
annihilation. The progress of science has not only
produced material problems, but has also created
intellectual and spiritual problems of a very grave
nature.
1. Science and scientific resources had vastly
expanded human knowledge. It not only gave man
microscopes and telescopes to observe things which
had till then remained unseen, but it also opened up
innumerable new ways and means of making it possible
to add greatly to information in every field.
All this gave man the self-confidence to feel
certain that he could arrive at the final reality
through science alone. But the only thing that the
increase in knowledge has told man is that he has
how entered into a new phase of ignorance. In the
words of a scientist: “We know more and more about
less and less.”
In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the
alternation of night and day; in the ships that sail
the ocean with cargoes beneficial to man; in the
water which Allah sends down from the sky and with
which he revives the earth after its death,
dispersing over it all manner of beasts; in the
movements of the winds, and in the clouds driven
between earth and sky: surely in these there are
signs for people who understand (2:163-164).”
The universe, stretching out to infinity on all
sides, is a sublime testament to God’s immanence.
The very existence of an incredibly vast universe is
proof of there being a Creator. And that there is
only one Creator and Sustainer is testified to by
the complete harmony and correspondence of all the
objects in existence, despite their multiplicity.
So many of these things having been tamed to meet
human requirements shows that man’s Creator is a God
of unbounded compassion; even before man came into
existence, God had already provided for all his
needs. Moreover, the usefulness inherent in so many
of our earthly phenomena is a silent, but certain
indicator of the universe having been consciously
planned as a purposive entity. A sign of the
limitless extent of God’s power is the infinite
variety of animal species all thriving on the same
nutrients and water which He provided. Another sign
of his power is the inevitability with which each
death is suceeded by a life. Life and freshness come
to lifeless things because that is how God causes
nature to function. If death in the universe is only
a temporary phase that is because God wills it to be
so.
Man’s God is only One God. He alone is worthy of
becoming the centre of man’s attention. Our
existence and all the things we have been provided
with on earth are attributable solely to God, the
source of all divine blessings. Man must make Him
his object of worship in the real sense and must
eternally associate with Him all his hopes and
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Answer:
Monotheism means to believe in one God; to believe
in the fact that all power lies in the hand of one
God alone; that He alone deserves to be worshipped.
No act in the nature of worship is lawful unless
directed towards God. It is God alone who fulfills
all our needs. It is God alone who is behind the
functioning of the entire universe. Superiority is
the prerogative of the one and only God. No one
enjoys real superiority in this world. All such
concepts are false as associate anyone or anything
with any of the aspects of God’s sovereignty. The
concept of God has been stated in the following
verses of the Quran:
God, there is no god but Him, the Living, the
Eternal one. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes
Him.
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