The Belief that God is the Sole Creator and Sustainer of all Creation (1/2)

There  is one  thing  that  definitively stands  out  when  one reads  the  Quran:  Allah  instructs  humankind  to  ponder  over  the creation with all its subtleties and magnificence. At no time do the teachings of the Quran shy away from reflection and rational thought. Indeed, these foundations of knowledge have been invoked over and over in the Quran as a path that will lead to only one conclusion: That  there  is no  way  that  this  creation  as  one  can  witness  and appreciate  it  today  could  have  possibly  come  into  being  except through  the  intent  and  creation  of  a  great,  divine  and  masterful creator.[1]

In fact, in one verse, Allah has given a powerful argument that was convincing to humankind for hundreds of years: “Were they created by nothing, or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have no firm Belief” (Surah At-Tur, 52:35-36). 

This has been clear to many, many people:  They obviously did not come here by means of nothing nor did they create themselves.  Hence, they are the result of the act of a Creator—a Creator who is in himself self-subsistent and not himself a created being.

Although this belief is innate and clear, doubts and misconceptions repeatedly come to humans from all sorts of different sources.[2] In different eras, different forms of confusion may come to people. Today many people are confused over the question of creationism   and   evolution.   In   fact,   some   even   argue   that “creationism” is not sound science while “evolution” is.

Currently, a popular explanation for the existence of the cosmos is the big bang theory. In fact, the Microsoft Encarta refers to it as the “currently accepted explanation of the beginning of the universe.” It is quite good of them to refer to it in that manner because “science” keeps changing its “facts” and explanations. It is exactly as Allah has described in the above-quoted verse, “Nay, but they have no firm belief” (Surah At-Tur, 52:36). Those who have turned away from God have to admit that they do not truly know what they believe and tomorrow their belief may be completely different from what it is today because, in reality, it is not built upon something firm.

It seems though that the dispute between the big bang theory and creationism is more hype than it is substance. The big bang theory, as the Encarta explains, “proposes that the universe was once extremely compact, dense, and hot. Some original event, a cosmic explosion called the big bang, occurred about 10 billion to 20 billion years ago, and the universe has since been expanding and cooling.”

But  this  begs  the  question  of  who  created  the  matter  that  was involved in that big-bang?[3] If that matter still requires a creator, is there any proof that the same creator did not create new types of creatures later in this cosmos?

Of course, there is a much bigger problem in relation to the big bang theory: How could such a random explosion lead to the consistency, excellence and beauty that one sees in this universe? What, for example, was the beauty and organized cosmos that was set into motion after Nagasaki and Hiroshima were bombed?

Amazingly, atheists and materialists still refuse to see what is obvious to their very souls and make statements that are ludicrous to say the least. For example, the famed atheist Huxley once actually stated, “If six monkeys sat at typewriters and banged on the keys for billions of years, it is not unlikely that in the last pages they wrote we would find one of the sonnets of Shakespeare. This is the case with the universe that exists now. It came about as the result of random forces which played with matter for billions of years.” [4] Waheed Uddeen Khan, using “materialistic” kind of reasoning has replied to such a statement quite well: “Mathematics, which has given us the concept of probability, itself   states   that   it   is mathematically impossible   for   this   universe   to   have   come   into   existence   by accident.”[5]

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