Eternal Truth

clearly see that this is the truth. Does it not suffice that your Lord is watching over all things? (Quran, 41: 53). The commentator, Ibn Kathir has explained this verse in these words: “Soon We shall make manifest the truth of the Quran through the external arguments of reasoning.” This verse of the Quran needs to be looked at in the context of posterity. These are the words of a Being before whom are ranged not only the generations of that time, but all succeeding generations. Addressing itself to all the peoples of the present, past and future, this verse declares that whatever is presented in its own times on the basis of revealed knowledge, will in the future have its authenticity proven by advances in human knowledge itself. What is merely a matter of assertion today will become a confirmed reality tomorrow. This prediction of the Quran has been proved true in the fullest sense. In ancient times when the magicians countered Truth with magic, God demolished their magic. In present times when the case for atheism was projected without its having any basis in truth, God made all the arguments in its favour vanish into thin air. By the same token, whatever is raised up against Truth will in like manner be demolished, – as has happened in all ages. God’s word, its veracity intact, will be perpetuated, for all time to come.