MIRACLES OR SIGNS OF GOD — Phenomena In Nature
Spirit of Islam, Apr 2014, p. 15
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.
could only be shown to people with the special intervention of God. With the advent of modern science, it has become possible that such natural phenomena can be explained through human intelligence. This scientific revolution that was to come had been predicted in the Quran (THE QURAN 41: 53). Conversion proves intervention, and when intervention is proved the intervener is also proved. God is only the other name of this intervener. There are countless and diverse things in the universe. Study shows that all these things are a result of conversion, that is, a change from one form to another. In Prophet Moses' time, what happened was a thing that was not a serpent was changed into a serpent; matter was changed into a different form of matter. This is the same phenomenon that transpires with everything else in this universe. Here, solid is being converted into liquid; liquid to solid, gases into liquids and vice versa, and gases into other gases. Energy is being converted into matter; matter is being converted into energy. In the same way, a tree grows out of a seed, a fruit comes forth from a flower, a chick emerges from an egg, and a butterfly is metamorphosed from a chrysalis. Change or conversion is everywhere. In the order of nature, this act of conversion is universal and allpervading. It is a proof of the existence of God and of His power. What is meant by conversion in the universe is actually intervention. Things that come into existence by conversion prove an intervention. And, when the act of intervention is proved, then the existence of the intervener is also proved. Conversion proves intervention, and when intervention is proved, the intervener is also proved. God is only the other name of this Intervener. o Learn from others Learning from others’ mistakes is the easiest way of not repeating that kind of mistake yourself.

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