Humans’ Power of Reason

Humans are specially gifted by the power of reason and logic. This power though limited but can be a very useful assessments tool for what can be true and what can be false or fake. Questions like origins of creation have many postulations: creation was either created or caused by nothing at all, or it had created itself, or it was created or caused by a maker outside itself. Every product is the work of a certain producer and every beautiful art is an inventory of some great artist. Although that is obvious, yet it does not satisfy the hunger for knowledge and the curiosity of man about the great things in the world. One often wonders at the beauties of nature with its scenic charms and marvels; the ceaseless succession of day and night in the most orderly manner; the course of the sun, the moon and the great stars; the world of animate and its animate objects; the wonderful creation of the human body, with its so accurately and highly organized, integrated and coordinated physiological and biochemical functions.

Who is the maker and maintainer of all these things in which we live and which we immensely enjoy? What is the secret beyond this existence? Could all this creation come into being on its own? This universe exists and functions in the most orderly manner and has survived for thousands, if not millions, of years. Could that all be accidental and haphazard? Can the existence of man and the whole universe be attributed to mere chance? These are all questions that logical human reasoning can find answers and solutions to them. Human reasoning and logic seem not to accept easily any worldview that denies or does not accept the existence of a Creator to the universe. No sensible human being with an able mind can conceive his life as so meaningless and no rational being would leave his existence at the mercy of fluctuating chance. Individuals, groups and nations do plan their course of action, and every careful plan produces some desired effect. Yet humans represent only a very small portion of the great universe; and if they can make plans and appreciate the merits of planning, then their own existence and the survival of the whole universe must also be based on a planned policy.

The Mulberry Tree:

The renowned Muslim Jurist Asshaafia’ was asked: “What is you proof for the existence of God?” He replied: The leaf of the mulberry tree! Its color, smell, taste and everything about it seem one and the same to you. But a caterpillar eats it and it comes out as fine silken thread. A bee eats it and it comes as honey. A sheep eats it and it comes as dung. Gazelles chew it and it congeals producing the fragrance of musk.

“Who has made all these different things come from the same type of leaf?”

There must then be a Designing Will behind our material existence. There must then be a Unique Mind that brings things into being and keeps them moving into order. There must be a Greatest Artist behind the beauty of nature and the marvels and charms of our life. This marvelous well-organized and ordered creation and this well-maintained design must all be founded not without meaning. There must be a special purpose out of this creation. The deeply enlightened souls and the true believers recognize this Artist and are concretely convicted that He is the Almighty Creator, the Originator of life and the Provider of all things into existence.