INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL

It’s not just God; everything is in the unseen. It is not specific to God alone; everything that is to be believed must be accepted at the level of unseen. M y Lord! open up my heart and make my task easy for me. Loosen the knot in my tongue so that they may understand my speech. This morning, I was sitting in front of the office, thinking about the Quran, when a verse came to my mind. This is the Book; there is no doubt in it. It is a guide for those who are mindful of God, who believe in the unseen (…). (2: 2-3) “Those who believe in the unseen,” this part of the verse got hold of my attention. I thought the words should have been something like: “Those who believe in God, Who is in the unseen.” However, this is not the case in the quoted verse. I found this question very important. You know that there is a saying in Arabic: “To know that I do not know—it is half knowledge.” If you could set up a right question, you have got half the answer. That’s what happened to me today. The question that came to my mind was, why didn’t God say, “Those who believe in God, Who is in the unseen” instead of “Those who believe in the unseen”? There is a profound truth hidden in these words. It took thousands of years for human beings to arrive at the truth in this matter. In previous times, the most common statement to deny the existence of God was that “God is not visible.” People used to say, “How can we believe in God Who is not visible? Our eyes believe only what we have seen. How do we believe what is not visible?” This went on for thousands of years until science discovered that nothing was actually visible. It’s not just God; everything is in the unseen. It is not specific to God alone; everything that is to be believed must be accepted at the level of unseen. This happened thanks to the development of science in the last 400 years. You know that modern science started 400 years ago in (This is an English rendition of an Urdu speech delivered by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan on July 30, 2017.) In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful THE INVISIBLE GOD