Faith in God
English book, p. 234
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
no role. All that man does is extract, refine, and fill his machines with it, and then this liquid fuel runs the whole system of human civilization! Likewise, in the universe, all those things have been made available in abundant quantity, which man has to only work on a bit to turn into items that meet his needs and wants, from clothes and houses to machines and vehicles. Are these phenomena in the world not sufficient evidence that a Creator and Sustainer runs the universe and has arranged for all the many things man needs to live and thrive, with just the right features and proportions? Perfect Planning of the Universe Now, view the matter from another perspective. The world contains ‘raw materials’ of various sorts, which man uses to make many different things. Man plays a very tiny part in making them usable for himself. He shapes iron ore into a machine, and, refining oil, he fills the tanks of his cars with it. However, the result of such simple human actions is that the land and the seas are filled with chaos and corruption, which are various forms of pollution. Nature has bestowed us with a beautiful and pure world, but our actions have caused us to be surrounded by smoke, noise, dirt, destruction, conflicts, and various insoluble problems. Continuously, more work than the little action we perform in our fields, factories, and offices keeps happening, day and night, in the vast universe, but no such problems are produced there. The Earth continuously engages in two types of movement:

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