Divine Planning

~ 30 ~ the revival of Islam in modern times, thus becoming warners and givers of good tidings for the peoples of the world. In order to facilitate the Islamic revolution in its first phase, God made the special provision of setting the mighty Roman and Persian empires – the greatest opponents of monotheism – on a collision course, and consequently weakening them so considerably that it became easy for the Muslims to subjugate them. This same succour of God for the believers has taken another form in modern times, i.e. the flow of such information about the universe as proves religious realities at the level of miracles. The superstitious way of thinking dominated the world in ancient times, as a result of which man had formed strange opinions about divine creation. The universe has been called the ‘miracle of God’ in the Qur’an. But this divine miracle lay hidden under the veil of superstition. One of the results of the Islamic revolution is that the phenomena of nature, which had been subjects of worship, now became subjects of research and investigation. In this way, for the first time in human history, the occurrences