God and the Universe

GOD: VOICE OF HUMAN NATURE Seeing the present conditions of the world, it seems as if God has drawn people to the doors of His mercy. The fact is that guidance for man has come from Heaven. Our task now is to convey the truth to the seekers of Truth. THE DESIRE FOR A DEITY Andriyan Nikolayev (1929-2004) was a Russian cosmonaut. In 1962, he travelled into space for the first time. After his return from this trip, in August 1962, he participated in a press conference in Moscow. Narrating his experiences in space, he said he wanted to kiss it when he landed on Earth. For a creature like man, many things and conditions that are conducive to human life have been made possible on Earth without any effort on man’s part. As far as we know, such things and conditions are nonexistent anywhere else in the vast universe. When the above-mentioned Russian astronaut went from Earth into space, he found that there, for man, was only amazement and bewilderment. Nothing there can give him peace and fulfil his needs. After experiencing this, when he landed on Earth, he realized the value of the Earth. Just as when experiencing intense thirst, a person recognizes the importance of water. He felt the Earth, along with all the conditions so favourable to man that it contains, to be so wonderful that he wanted to offer it his intense love. This thing is called ‘making a deity’ in Islamic Shariah. Man does not see God with his eyes, so he makes a creature,