Discovering the Quran
English book, p. 17
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
From Science to God-Realization in all circumstances. Those who can fulfil this condition will certainly succeed in attaining a high level of realization. It is a tragedy of human history that the majority of human beings have fallen into negative thinking on one pretext or the other. They have not been able to adhere to positive thinking and have, therefore, not been able to attain God-realization. This is the greatest reason for the unattainability of a high level of realization. From Science to God-Realization What is science? Science is the systemized knowledge of nature and the physical world. Human beings have always been reflecting and contemplating about the truths of the universe. At first this thinking process started along traditional lines, it then continued in the form of philosophy and finally began to be studied in an organized way according to the accepted principles of science. The subject of the science is study of the physical world. The universe that has been discovered by scientific research after about four hundred years gives evidence, by way of inference, of its Creator. However, no scientist in the past has openly acknowledged the existence of God. All that can be said about scientists of the like of Albert Einstein is that their case was one of agnosticism and not one of clear atheism. In the realm of the physical science, we have had three major paradigm shifts in the last four centuries. First, we had the Newtonian hypothesis that matter was the basic building block of the universe. In the early twentieth century, this gave way to the Einsteinian paradigm of energy being the basic

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