No Interference
English book, PDF p. 88
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
~ 88 ~ human knowledge has accorded the Qur’anic methodology (indirect argument) exactly the same importance as that applied to the world outside the sphere of religious learning, i.e. the sciences and other secular disciplines. In the wake of latter-day developments in modern science, what had earlier been a matter of external information, i.e. information revealed to the prophets, has now come within the province of human investigation. The discovery, for example, in modern science of the laws of the universe is a pointer to the existence of God. Similarly, scientists’ findings that, parallel to the existing, visible world, there exists an invisible world which physicists call antimatter, clearly proves the existence of the Hereafter. Yet one of the most important things conceded by modern science is that man, because of his limitations, cannot arrive at absolute reality. This is a clear indication that man needs revelation for his guidance. As for requiring miracles as manifestations of the divine power, should we not consider the generation of electricity by bringing together a

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