The book “God Arises” was the result of an exhaustive research by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan to prove monotheistic religious beliefs such as the existence of God through science. It demonstrates how 20th century research has totally demolished the atheistic claims put forward in the 18th and 19th centuries that stated that only what was observable directly had any existence. Today, science comes to the support of religion, with a new logic that came into existence that not only was the direct or observable argument thought to be valid, but inferential arguments or the invisible sources of visible effects were also considered to be binding by scientists.
Even if God cannot be seen, the effect of His Creation–the Universe –can be seen by us all the time. If we believe in the existence of the Universe–the effect of God’s creation–we have to believe in the Creator of the Universe through the inferential argument which is considered valid by scientists. The Maulana concludes that “The option one has to take is not between the ‘Universe without God’ and the ‘Universe with God’. The option is actually between the ‘Universe with God’ or ‘No Universe at all’.
The book has been translated into different languages–English, Arabic, Malay, Turkish, Hindi, Malayalam and Sindhi. In Arabic, it has been translated under the title of Al-Islam Yatahadda and became popular throughout the Arab world and is now accepted as the standard Islamic position on modern thought.
