Let there be in this cityskyscrapers, twisting roads, railway stations,
airports, shopping malls, subways and also rivers, lakes, forests and a
beach. Let there also be living in it thousands of people wandering in
its streets, sitting in their homes and working in their offices. Take
every detail into account. Even the traffic lights, box offices, and the
signboards at the bus stations.
If someone came up to you and said that all the Legos of this city,
which you had founded by planning it right down to the smallest detail,
and each piece of which you had picked up withgreat pains, had been
brought together by coincidence to produce this city, what would you
think of the mental state of that person?
Now, go back to the city you have built and consider that the whole city
would be leveled to the ground if you had forgotten to put into place
even a single Lego, or changed its place. Can you imagine what great
balance and order you have had to establish?
Life in the world where we live isalso made possible by the accumulation
of such a great number of details incomprehensible to the human mind.
The absence of even one of these details might mean the end of life on
the earth.
Everything, every detail from the atom, the smallest unit of matter, to
the galaxies harboring billions of stars, from the moon, an inseparable
adjunct of the world, to the solar system, all work in a perfect harmony
. This well-organized system runs flawlessly, just like a watch. People
are so confident that thisbillions-of-years-old system will go on
functioning without leaving out even the smallest detail that they can
freely make plans about something they think will be realized in the
next 10 years. No one is worried about whether the sun will rise the
next day. A great majority of people do not think about 'whether the
world may ever chance to break free from the gravitation of the sun and
start to move towards the unknown in the pitch-dark space'; or ask 'What
keeps this from happening?'
In the same manner, when people are about to sleep, they are very
confident that their hearts or respiratory systems will not relax as
their brains do. However, even a few seconds' halt in any one of these
two vitalsystems may well cause results that will cost one's life.
When the 'glasses of familiarity' which surround the whole of lifeand
cause every event to be assessed as if 'it is taking place in its
natural course' are taken off, one is free to see that everything is
made up of such closely interdependent, meticulously planned systems
that it is as if we were hanging on to life by the skin of our teeth.
You notice an excellent order prevailing in every spot you turn your
eyes on. Certainly, there is a great power that creates such an order
and harmony. The possessor of this great power is God, Who
createdeverything out of nothing. In a verse of the Qur'an, it is said:
He Who has created seven heavens in full harmony with one another: no
incongruity will you see in the creation of the Most Gracious. And turn
your vision (upon it) once more: can you see any flaw? Yea, turn your
vision (upon it) again and yet again: (and every time) your vision will
fall back upon you, dazzled and truly defeated. (Surat al-Mulk, 3-4)
When we look at the living beings in the heavens, on the earth and in
all that lies between them, we see that theyall prove the existence of
their Creator in their own right. So I suggest we all take a moment to
reflect on the natural phenomena and living beings that every one sees,
yet never thinks about, and how they havecome into being and continue
their existence. If we were to write down all the signs of God in the
universe, they would fill many thousands of volumes of encyclopedias.
For God Exists.
To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth and He is
known through reason.
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