Nature Bears Witness
Only the earth favours man’s survival in the universe and permits him to bring civilization into being. Therefore, the earth’s exception in the limitless universe is proof of the existence of an intelligent, conscious Being, God Almighty.
If one were to say that by mixing crushed pieces of stone and wood, petrol could be produced, that would only make people laugh. Indeed, no human being has the power to make such things happen. However, far stranger and more complex events of a similar nature occur every day in this world. Nature’s chemistry is constantly producing phenomena that, to the uninitiated, appear unintelligible mysteries.
For example, let us take hydrogen and oxygen. When nature mixes up these two gases in a particular ratio, the resulting combination takes the form of a liquid—crystal-clear water. When carbon and hydrogen are mixed under particular conditions, another very precious fluid is formed—crude oil. When certain salts and minerals are mixed with carbon, life comes into existence. When a magnetic field and movement are brought together, a tremendous force called electricity is produced. Similarly, when a magnetic field and electricity are brought together, an immensely powerful movement comes into being. When a seed is sown in the soil, it transforms into wood, leaves, flowers, fruits, etc.
Innumerable miracles of this type keep occurring in this world at every moment, and man is dumbfounded at seeing them. He is a witness to the fact that neither do these objects have any power to come into existence on their own, nor does man possess the power to create anything by himself. Then how is all this happening? To explain these happenings, he says that all phenomena are a part of God. It is God Himself who is manifesting himself in innumerable forms.
The Quran, however, rejects such explanations as misleading. According to the Quran, natural phenomena are not part of God but have come into existence at His command. Rather than God manifesting himself in these forms, He has created them with His divine powers.
Since time immemorial, poets have been inspired by the beauty of the stars, and man from ancient times has seen the moon as a god. The truth, however, is quite the reverse. The stars are enormous balls of fire, while the moon and other planets are just rocks, bereft of water and plant life. Despite being imaginably vast, the universe is hostile to the existence of a creature like a man. Only the earth favours man’s survival and permits him to bring civilization into being in all the known universe. The earth, standing out as an exception in the limitless universe, is clear proof of the existence of an intelligent being who consciously created such circumstances here on earth as would remain favourable to the continuing existence of the human species.
