IMPORTANCE OF DISCOVERY

For humans, the most essential thing is discovery in the context of this world and the world of the Hereafter. According to the Quran, the desired individual believes in the unseen (2:3). What does it mean to believe in the unseen? It is to turn the unknown into the known; in other words, it is called discovery in modern terms.

God has hidden the secrets of worldly progress inside the earth and in the skies. These secrets are called ‘The Laws of Nature.’ A primary focus of science is discovering these secrets or the laws of Nature. The people who discover these laws and draw benefit from them advance beyond others, as has happened in several Western nations and Japan, particularly in the modern age. The progress of ‘developed’ countries has been obtained based on these discoveries.

In the same way, God has kept the world of the Hereafter hidden from man’s sight. Now, man has to discover the Hereafter. He has to bring into the ‘seen’ a thing that is in the unseen. This discovery is called iman or conviction. The more a person advances in this conviction, the more progress and success he will obtain in the Hereafter.