ZERO-DEFECT UNIVERSE
Spirit of Islam, Feb 2020, p. 38
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.
ZERO-DEFECT UNIVERSE Holding a Mirror to Human Affairs S OME decades ago, the concept of ‘zero-defect management’ was propounded. A lot of literature was produced on the subject and considerable research was conducted on the issue. The concept spread rapidly in parts of the West, and major efforts were made to try to implement it. However, despite much effort, it came to be accepted that ‘zero-defect management’ isn’t at all possible. It proved to be a failure! But at around the same time as ‘zero-defect management’ in human affairs proved to be a failure, scientific research was proving that the system of nature that operates throughout the universe is based precisely on the principle of ‘zero-defect management’. To take just one instance, the stars and the planets move in perfect precision. So, if you want to know at what time the sun will rise tomorrow and at what time it will set, you can get the exact information today itself, so accurate is the motion of Earth around the sun! So, on the one hand, the idea of ‘zero-defect management’ in the human world proved to be a complete flop while, on the other hand, in the natural world it was shown that ‘zero-defect management’ operates in a perfect manner! So perfect is this management of the non-human world that we can know today itself that on 15th April 2025 in New Delhi, sunrise will be at 05:56 am and sunset at 18:46 pm! One can get accurate information of sunrise and sunset for any other place in the world, too, well in advance. In the same way, the entire natural world is working in perfect order, as science reveals. Through various scientific disciplines we can get the information we want regarding such phenomenon for the distant past as well as distant future, and this information will be accurate, without any change. Now, reflect on the fact that this material world is functioning under the management of the Creator. From its very inception it has been operating on the principle of ‘zero-defect management’. In contrast to this is the human world, where man makes plans but things are always subject to change, modification and failure. For instance, an industrialist conceives a project, but no matter how hard he may try, he cannot implement the project in a zero-defect manner. As they say, it is in comparison that you understand. Compare God’s way of managing things with man’s way. The Divine management that

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