Surah al-Rad, classic recitation by Shaykh Abdul Basit, 1957
Say (O Muhammad): Who is Lord of the heavens and the earth? Say: Allah. Say: Take ye then (others) beside Him for protectors, which, even for themselves, have neither benefit nor hurt? Say: Is the blind man equal to the seer, or is darkness equal to light? Or assign they unto Allah partners who created the like of His creation so that the creation (which they made and His creation) seemed alike to them? Say: Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is the One, the Almighty. (16)
AS MENTIONED ABOVE, the surah opens by referring to the physical universe as evidence for the existence and power of God, and then turns to man's response to the Qur'an which presents this evidence and elaborates on it. I chose to deal with the the later subject first because I wanted to devote more space to the first one.
Muslims live almost as non-participants in today's world. their contribution to science is almost negligible, although nothing could be more conducive to the understanding of the Qur'an than the study of the physical world. I once imagined myself positioned a hundred miles away in space, and wondered: What would I see on earth? Would I see a thick cloud of smoke and smog that has polluted the earth's atmosphere? Would I hear the cacophony and the dissonance of factory and plant noise which has drowned all other sounds? I believe that the world has a finite life-span, but is it prematurely and inexorably driving itself towards an early end? Another question: What is man's position in this vast cosmos? We have read that a new black hole has been discovered in outer space which is a hundred times larger any black hole known to man. It has been reported that scientists believe that a collossal new black hole contains around one thousand million active stars, that it is exerting a tremendous amount of gravitational pull which prevents even light from escaping out of it! I thought to myself: this is only one black hole, so what if we are to look wider into other parts and aspects of our universe? Let us do that through the surah:
Allah it is Who raised up the heavens without visible supports, then mounted the Throne, and compelled the sun and the moon to be of service, each runneth unto an appointed term; He ordereth the course; He detaileth the revelations, that haply ye may be certain of the meeting with your Lord. (2)
WE look at our own bodies every day. Man is a whole intricate universe in his own right. Within our bodies thousands of organs, systems, and processes exist and operate together in harmony and with efficiency. look at how hundreds of thousands of haors grow again and again on the human body; billions of red cells are found in the blood stream, reproduced within the body as and when necessary. The human nerve system constantly receives signals from the brain which man has yet to fathom, or understand precisely how it works and how it carries out its numerous and complicated tasks day and night. God has always been and ever shall be in charge of maintaining the function of all systems and deciding their fate and destiny. Elsewhere in the Qur'an, we read: "And that thy Lord, He is the goal; (42) And that He it is who maketh laugh, and maketh weep,"(43)
Science has established that our universe is vast beyond our comprehension, but what scientists ought to acknowledge is that God is much greater. In human terms, people can only concentrtae on a finite number of tasks for a given period of time, but God is never distracted and is always aware of everything, from a plaintive moaning of tortured animal to the mass cries of victims of human oppression. Morever, hHe duly gives the oppressors their just reward. God can hear a leaf falling from a tree and He hears the roaring of thunder. He can see the clotting of blood inside veins. as clearly and as easily as He sees the trail of a shooting star.
NOTHING ESCAPES HIM.
Muhammad al-Ghazali
[ 1917 - 1996 ]
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Commentary and reflection by Ustaz Muhammad Mustafa [ ' Malay' ]
[ verse 30 to verse 39 ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCdyhaHEzUY
Commentary and reflection by prof Quraish Shihab
[ verse 32 to verse 38 ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PCn2MNKJZU
Commentary and reflection by prof Quraish Shihab
verse 38 to verse 43
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhCstIZkBuc
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From " Pearls & Gem " :-
1. Letter To Ru, Joe, Sha and Nina
http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2010/07/aqidah.html
2. Size of The Universe
One extreme end of light to the other extreme end of light [ the diameter of the universe ] is a couple of billion light years apart.[ This fact is obtained from the Hubble telescope research ].Yet this universe is expanding at 300,000 kilometres per second. There are billion billion stars that make the universe. The sun is just one minute small star among the billions of stars of the galaxies. Our earth is just a minute spectre within the solar system. It take so many years even for NASA's un-maned satelite to even have a glimpse of Mars.
Putting a figure to this fact would come out with something like this:
Current diameter of universe at my last estimated calculation is a figure of 4 kilometres times by 35 zeros behind it....and that is not all. It is expanding at something like a figure times by nine zeros kilometres per day, everyday. Add another 3 zeros for good measure if you are thinking of a year's expansion, 12 zeros altogether. Something with 12 zeros kilometres per year of expansion alone!
And this is miniscule in God's arithmetics , because His Tremendous Throne is super vast....the Arash, the 'footstool' to The Tremendous Throne itself is unimaginable
Yes , I am talking of the Arash.....
Put this universe in The Arash and it will be lost like a needle in a haystack.
Allahualam
And yet Stephen Hawkings can prophezised from his wheel chair that this universe does not need a maker.
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