From Science to the Realization of God
English book, p. 79
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
UNIVERSAL EVIDENCE OF GOD AND THE HEREAFTER the first scientist through whom the journey of modern science began systematically. This process continued for almost four hundred years until it reached its culmination. By the 20th century, all the scientific data necessary to discover the Creator at a scientific or rational level had been obtained by human beings. This process continued for some four centuries until its culmination in the 20th century. Now, man has obtained all the scientific data necessary for the Creator’s discovery at the scientific or rational level. Every particle of the universe that God has created bears the stamp, as it were, of the Creator. Then, he introduced this knowledge to the Angels. After this, He placed this knowledge in the universe in a hidden form so that man could discover it independently through conceptual thinking. It is this hidden knowledge that, after its discovery, is known by the name of ‘modern science.’ The Evidence of Science What is science? Science means the study of the universe objectively and organized in the light of proven or established principles. Essentially, science is the systematic knowledge of Nature. Man has always reflected and pondered on the reality of the universe—first of all, in the light of traditional beliefs, after that, in the light of philosophical thinking, and then, in the light of accepted principles of science. The physical sciences have had three major paradigm shifts in the last four centuries. First, there was the Newtonian h ypothesis that matter is the basic building block of the

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