The Argument with Reference to Quran
by Prof. Ahmad Rafique Akhtar.
An extract from The Argument with Reference to Quran by Prof. Ahmad Rafique Akhtar.
The tragedy of human thought is that the question it asks is cannot be answer by Man. You don’t have to burden yourself with believing in God, but answer to the question of life and universe which human intellectual have tried to give have been waste of time and nothing more then idle talk. The essence of this argument is this:
It is not God but nature, which created the cosmos.
Nature, limited by the laws of science undertakes its creative activity without any thought or feeling. It is nature, who itself is governed by law of Gravity, which has proposed the Theory of Relativity, and has designed the structure of the Atom. The brain of nature has designed the genetic code, which forms the basis of life, and active in organising the complex world of microorganism, and is responsible for their evolutionary stages of development. Its nature, which wields its authority over life and death. It is the artist who creates the miracles of beauty and ugliness. It array a vast array of feeling and thought; it is witnessed in wonderful rainbow of life, in the rose and tulip, and in the song of nightingale and turtledove. Nature is the pure consciousness. It is the accomplisher, the creator and maker. Nature is death, destruction and total annihilation.
What a injustice then, is the fact that nature despite having absolute intelligence, faculty of speech and the most sophisticated tools of creation, is itself is totally mute and does not speak with us. The arguments of the devotee of nature are clearly ludicrous. Nature is not a ‘being’. It is totally speechless and cannot even tell us “I AM NATURE”, I am the Lord of all, whatever you are it is because of me, I bring together the opposite of life and death, I am the laws of creation and destruction, but the tragedy is that having granted you speech, letters and books, intelligence and communication and mountains of poetry and eloquence, i myself have become totally mute, and do not have the power to manifest and express myself in anyway, O what a calamity that I am more helpless and weak than my own creation, at the very least I am not God’. It is at this point that the statistics of God begin to stack up.....
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