Spirit of Islam · A Universe With God

A Universe With God

Spirit of Islam, April 2013, p. 28

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.

The Failure of Idealism All the philosophers and thinkers regard this present world as an eternal world. They believe that they will be able to build their desired world in this present world itself. The ideal society, the ideal state, the ideal system – all these concepts have stemmed from such a belief. These thinkers have been fascinated by such concepts all their lives. They persisted with the belief that civilization was the realization of this dream. Acceptance of God not only provides the explanation for the existence of this universe, but also gives complete meaningfulness to the universe. With modern industrial progress, people thought that civilizational development was finally going to lead them to their destination, when they would be able to build their paradise in the present world itself; but this notion has proved to be totally wrong. The End of the World Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the founder of modern science, studied the laws of physics and predicted in 1704, that the modern world would come to an end in 2060. On the basis of this observation, scientists all over the world are saying that as a result of global warming, the end of the world has become certain. The further development of civilization is no longer possible. In his book, Future Shock, published in 1970, Alvin Toffler wrote that now the world had passed through the industrial age and was entering the super-industrial age. The next stage of civilization would be a stage of complete automation. Push-button culture would progress to the extent that everything would be done automatically. But the problem of global warming has brought the message not of the consummation of history but of the end of history. This turn of events is undoubtedly the most crucial issue of today. A satisfactory answer to the questions it raises is to be found only in the concept of the universe with God. Without this concept, it is just not possible to find a satisfactory explanation for this phenomenon. This event is an argument in favour of the concept of the universe with God; an argument which fully satisfies reason and logic. Such examples clearly prove that the concept of a Godless universe

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