God and the Universe
English book, p. 229
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
GOD AND MAN laws and draw benefit from them advance beyond others, as has happened in several Western nations and Japan, particularly in the modern age. The progress of ‘developed’ countries has been obtained based on these discoveries. In the same way, God has kept the world of the Hereafter hidden from man’s sight. Now, man has to discover the Hereafter. He has to bring into the ‘seen’ a thing that is in the unseen. This discovery is called iman or conviction. The more a person advances in this conviction, the more progress and success he will obtain in the Hereafter. THE DELIGHT OF DISCOVERY The Sun is 12,00,000 times the size of the Earth and is more than 900,00,000 miles from it. Yet, we get adequate light and heat from the Sun. Compared to many other stars, the Sun is quite small but seems very big because it is relatively close to the Earth. Most stars are much bigger than the Sun and emit even more light than it. Innumerable stars—an amazing world of light and heat—are scattered all over space. Despite being in existence for trillions of years, their light and heat have not been extinguished. How does such immense energy get produced in the stars? After long years of research, Hans Bethe discovered that this secret lies in the ‘carbon cycle.’ For this discovery, he won the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physics. It must have been a moment of immense and inexpressible

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