SCIENCE OPENS NEW HORIZONS

This modern scientific finding is a great basis for the votary of Truth in presenting a rationale for belief in the existence of the Creator God. On the basis of this finding, one can say that man, given his present abilities, can arrive only at indirect knowledge about God and Paradise. Man simply cannot obtain direct observational evidence on these matters. Science has opened up new doors of Godrealization. What is science? Science is concerned with the study of nature, and nature is another name for the creation of God. So, science can be said to be the discipline that studies the creation of God, the Maker of all things. In this study, man does not see the Creator directly. Rather, studying and contemplating on the creation of the Creator, he learns more about the Creator. Before the emergence of modern science, man’s knowledge of nature was limited. In other words, man knew relatively little about the creations of God. In such a situation, his understanding of the greatness of God was limited. Modern scientific revolution marked a watershed in this regard. It enabled man to study the creation of God in much greater detail. Scientists developed many instruments for this purpose. By uncovering many of the signs of God scattered about in the universe, they opened up new opportunities for a higher level of realization of the power and glory of God. In this regard, it is pertinent to note that in Muslim literary history there have been many writers who penned numerous books on the glories of the Prophet of Islam. But there have been hardly any who wrote on the glories of God. For the glories of the Prophet, an impressive historical record was available. But the issue of the glories of God was a different one. It is not possible for us to see God physically and estimate His greatness directly. There is only one way to get some sort of idea of God’s greatness, and that is, to discern God’s greatness in and through God’s creation. That is to say, one can get an idea of the greatness of the non-observable Creator through His observable creations. Before the advent of modern science, man did not have a detailed knowledge of the creations of God. On account of the limited intellectual framework in this period, belief in God remained largely a mysterious sort of Science has opened up new doors of God-realization. Science is concerned with the study of nature, and nature is another name for the creation of God. So, science can be said to be the discipline that studies the creation of God, the Maker of all things.