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How CREATION PLAN OF GOD

Spirit of Islam, Sept-Oct 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.

do I speak and how does the listener hear me?—every single thing will appear extraordinarily mind-boggling to you. Then you will be compelled to ask: What is the Creation Plan of God? Why am I here? Why do I live, and where do I go after death? You will begin to think about each of these questions. This is what we call the Creation Plan of God. By God’s grace, I have remained engaged with this question. My personal history is that I was born in a village. I had no interest in anything—not in family, not in business, not in clothes, not in food. I used to go to a river in the village; there was a bridge, and I would sit there and watch the sunrise in the morning and the sunset in the evening. By nature, everything appeared extraordinary to me. Just today I was thinking about hair—how strange it is! How is hair formed? My head is made of bone; how does hair grow from bone? I thought about this today. Everything appears new to me. The Quran says: “Every day He manifests Himself in a new state.” (55: 29) This means that we can discover something new about our Creator everyday. In science, there is a theory called the Theory of Indeterminacy. In this world—which includes us—there is continuity, but in reality, like in TV or cinema, each moment is broken; there is no actual continuity. Every second, reality breaks and begins again. Every moment, you are given a new life; new thoughts should come to you, a new mind should be formed, a new creative idea should arise in you. Then your state will be like that of a person who has come from another galaxy—everything will suddenly appear mind-boggling. When things appear mind-boggling, you will think. And through this thinking, you will eventually understand the Creation Plan of God. For example, you will realize: I am a perfection-seeking being. I want everything to be ideal and perfect. Anything less than perfect is not acceptable to me. But in this world, perfection is never found.

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