INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL
Spirit of Islam, July-August 2025, p. 23
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.
the time of Galileo. Then science continued to move forward until a German scientist “Max Planck” discovered “Quantum Physics.” He is called the founder of Quantum Physics and was also awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Many scientists worked on it until quantum physics became an established theory in science. What is Quantum physics? Quantum Physics, in essence, can be explained as: Nature of objects in reality is quite different from what is apparently visible. Sir Arthur Eddington, a British scientist, wrote a book published in 1929 titled The Science and the Unseen World. In it, he wrote that the table I am working on is actually a collection of electrons. We think of it as a wooden table, but on analysis, it is a collection of many electrons. Electrons are not visible. Thus, it is not just God who is invisible (unseen), all things are unseen. Thus, from the very beginning, the Quran made clear that one has to believe in the unseen because there is nothing that is actually seen. At first, man didn’t know that he was a collection of electrons. Then, the atom and the electron were discovered. As a result of these scientific discoveries, man knew that everything in this world is unseen. What you think is visible is actually the unseen because it is a collection of electrons and electrons cannot be seen. Under Quantum Physics, it was a great revolution in the theory of knowledge. Before that, only two things were known in the world of knowledge: certainty and perhaps. Now, a new concept was introduced through Quantum Physics: probability. This is a big revolution. The entire foundation, on which the argument for the denial of God was established, collapsed. Quantum Physics scientifically proved that probability is less than certainty but more than perhaps. Consider again the example of the table. You observe the table which is composed of atoms. And the atoms and subatomic particles cannot be seen. You do not observe the electron. You infer the existence of electrons. Thus, probability is a reliable scholarly method, and it has been assumed that “probability is less than certainty and more than perhaps.” How great it is this truth is hidden in the above-quoted verse. This morning, I was wondering why God said, “Those who believe in the unseen” and not “Those who believe in the unseen God?” God is in the unseen, and everything else is also in the unseen. Your mother, your son, your desk—all are hidden. Going deeper, they all are composed of electrons—water, elephants, trees, humans, etc. And there’s a great truth hidden in this verse. The universe

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