God and the Universe
English book, p. 45
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
DISCOVERY OF GOD Some astronomers speculate that the collision of matter and anti-matter caused it. This theory holds that there was originally slightly more matter than anti-matter, so some matter was left over after the blast. (The Times of India, December 11, 1977) This model explains that the Big Bang was not big. This background microwave radiation, discovered in 1965, was considered “heat left over after the bang.” Referring to this radiation, known as the ripple remnants of the Big Bang in outer space, the American scientist Joel Primack (b. 1945) remarked that they “are no less than the handwriting of God.” Further, the exception found in our Milky Way raises the question: who caused this exception? These scientific discoveries point to the existence of a Planner, which is another name for God. A COMPARISON Man does not know the matters of the unseen realm. The Quran says: “Say, ‘I have no power to benefit or do harm, save as God pleases. If I had knowledge of the unseen, I would have availed myself of an abundance of good, and no harm would have touched me.’” (7:188) According to the above verse, man does not know the unseen. He does not know what will happen in the future. He acts based on his knowledge of ‘today’ but is completely unaware of what will happen tomorrow. In contrast, God

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