Nature Subjected to Mankind

Nature Subjected to Mankind Before the invention of such devices as the telescope and the microscope, humans knew very little about the wonders of the cosmos. The twentieth century is an age of knowledge explosion. In this age, many unique revelations have been made about the universe and this is an ongoing process. Now the time has come for man to discover the Creator on a far higher plane, achieve a far greater realization of the Majesty of the Creator and discover the new aspects of the signs and wonders of God. With such wonderful apprehension of the Majesty of God, the believer will spontaneously say: “Praise be to God, the Lord of the Worlds.” (1:2) There is a tradition of the Prophet on this aspect of the Quran: “The wonders of the Quran will never cease.” (Sunan at-Tirmizi, Hadith No. 2906). These wonders are not the wonders of the book, but are rather the wonders of the God who has sent us the Quran. In later times, all the discoveries relative to the universe are only indications of God’s Omnipotence and Omniscience, and as such are expressions of the unlimited Majesty of the Creator. One important aspect of this space discovery is that a newly discovered star and the sun belong to the same family. Just as the newly discovered celestial body is a star so also is the sun a star. But the newly discovered star is thirteen hundred times bigger than the sun. Had this star been in place of the sun and sun in place of that star, the earth would have been so hot that no kind of life would have survived here. There would have been neither human life nor any kind of water, vegetation and animals. This positioning of stars is extremely meaningful. The Quran alludes thus to this aspect of space: “I swear by the setting of the stars–and, indeed, that is a most mighty oath, if you only knew.” (56:75-76) In this verse, ‘swear’ means bearing witness and ‘setting’ means the light of the stars vanishing with the coming of the day. The very positioning of the stars at exactly the right places