INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL
Spirit of Islam, July-August 2025, p. 24
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.
functions on natural laws. There is truth that must be discovered in these laws. What is science? Science is the name of discovering what is hidden in nature. If God has asked man to believe in God Who is in the unseen, it’s the mercy of God that He has made all things unseen. When you discover the universe and the laws of nature, you will know that in reality everything is unseen. If I believe this, I will have to believe in God as well. If I deny God, the whole universe must be denied. I remember a newspaper being published from Lucknow called Nigar. Its editor was known to be an atheist. He wrote in an article: “This is the age of believing in the visible.” He was telling the people of the religion that they were asking ‘to believe in the unseen” in an age that has made manifest the laws of nature, and that only those things could be believed that were seen. But it was the physics of Newton and Galileo. Now, after research, that physics is no longer valid. Now, it is the age of Quantum Physics. Now, the whole theory of knowledge is based on “Those who believe in the unseen.” The principle which is used to believe in God is the same that is applied to prove the existence of table. This is the conviction Quran provides to its readers. Quran is the Book of God. The message of the prophets was based on true knowledge. The author of the Quran is One who knew what Quantum Physics was long before Quantum Physics appeared. The Quran was revealed in the 7th century, and the advent of Quantum Physics came about in the 20th century. In the 7th century, author of the Quran knew what was about to happen in the 20th century. ‘We will believe in God if He is visible’, this statement is no longer an academic statement. All the facts mentioned in the Quran require thinking. To guide this thinking, a theory was formulated. It was suggested that the coherence in the Quran is the key to understanding it. This theory has no ground. Understanding the text with deep thinking and reflection is the key to the Quran. Proponents of the theory of the ‘Coherence in the Quran’ didn’t realize that the Quran nowhere states that the key to understanding it is its order or coherence. However, the Quran does say that deep thinking and reflection on the Quran is the way towards understanding it. It’s strange that people discovered what’s not written in the Quran but failed to find what is mentioned there. The Quran says, “Think, reflect, then you will know the depths of the Quran.” Those trapped in the theory of ‘Coherence of the

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