SCIENCE OPENS NEW HORIZONS

SCIENCE OPENS NEW HORIZONS Discover the Creator through Creation T HE Quran refers to the Divine plan in these words (41: 53): We shall show them Our signs in the universe and within themselves, until it becomes clear to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that your Lord is the witness of all things? The signs of God whose emergence was predicted in this verse of the Quran came into full expression in the 19th and 20th centuries. One aspect of the modern scientific revolution is that it has fully brought to life these signs of God. The modern scientific revolution has provided a commonly accepted intellectual ground between those who engage in dawah work (dayees or preachers) and their addressees (madus or addressees), through which dawah (missionary) work can be engaged in a more effective way. Some 3000 years ago, the Prophet Moses started his prophetic mission in Egypt. He promulgated the message of the unity of God (tawhid) to Pharaoh, who was then the ruler of Egypt. But Pharaoh mocked this message. The Quran (28: 38) tells us: Pharaoh said, “O nobles, I know of no god for you other than myself. So, Haman, burn me bricks of clay, and build me a high tower, so that I may have a look at the God of Moses, though I consider him to be one of the liars.” Something similar to this happened closer to our own times. Nikita Khrushchev (d. 1971) was one of the top leaders of the former Soviet Union. In 1957, the Soviet Union sent its first satellite into space. It was called Sputnik. The satellite entered space, travelled around, taking many pictures, and then returned to Earth. After this, Khrushchev, mocking religion, declared that their spacecraft had travelled in space but no God was to be seen there, nor any Paradise. To rebut such claims, earlier no solid scientific basis was available. But now the situation is completely altered, with great advances in science. According to modern researches, only around four per cent of the vast universe is observable for man. The remaining 96% of the universe is beyond our observation. Much of this 96% is thought to consist of dark matter and dark energy, which are poorly understood, if at all.