God and the Universe
English book, p. 214
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
When the Iran Air plane was flying in the heights of the sky, the ship’s computer, surveying the craft, recorded it on the radar screen as an F-14 jetfighter instead of what it was—an Airbus A 300 passenger plane. It was mistaken for an inimical military aircraft. Immediately after that, an officer on the ship pressed a button, and two missiles flew out, dispatching the plane and everyone on board to their deaths. Modern atheists say that the universe is a machine. Why don’t such mechanical blunders occur if the universe is a machine? Why has such a vast universe, which contains billions of galaxies and stars, continuously functioned flawlessly for billions of years? The only reasonable explanation is that this is because the universe is managed by the Lord of the universe, who is flawless and can never make any mistake. REMOTE CONTROL: A SPIRITUAL INSIGHT One of the many terms the modern age has added to the dictionary is ‘remote control.’ This term denotes controlling something from a distance without any direct physical contact. These days, remote-control technology is widely used for a variety of purposes. Signals are sent out in the form of codes. In the concerned machine, a receiver obtains these

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