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O
aficionados of the West! If becoming cuckold is the name of progress and
advancement, let it be all yours! Better is remaining behind than this.
We
thought education will bring ease,
No
one thought it will bring atheism too as by-product.
[Allama
Muhammad Iqbal]
There
are some people who deny the Miracles of the entire Messengers (of Allah), the
Karamaat
and the paranormal upshots of the Aulia and say that nothing can happen
against the laws of nature and that sequence of cause and motive, condition and
result and the check and balance which is experienced in the world, there is no
other motive or any invisible agent or active nature. World is just this world
of changes which is perceived and found with the limits of senses. Nothing can
happen against to the natural phenomenon of a thing. Sun rises in east, fire
burns, water flows from higher place to lower place and they quote this verse in
support of atheism and materialism:
Man
by nature upright the nature (framed) of Allah, in which He had created man.
There is no altering (the laws of) Allah's creation. That is the right religion
(30:30)
We
have already given explained its Tafseer
that this nature means the 'religious
nature'. 'There is no altering (the laws of) Allah's creation'
does not mean
this that the material things cannot change but instead we see that material
things continue to change from one form to the other and change is happening in
everything and this thing is also not correct that nothing can be done against
the laws of Nature but instead 'Allah is Able to do all things (2:20)'
.
[**Take the example of the birth of Hazrat
Esa the son of Marry Alaihis-Salaam
(Jesus Christ) who was born without father]. Allah
is not bound to follow and
abide by His own Law. If He is confined to His Law and Rules, then of what will
be God! In such case, there will be the only influence of matter and its laws
in the universe.
God is beyond the scopes of imagination and thought,
He,
who is comprehendible by the Slave, how can he be God.
*
Even
the short-term governments of this world have the power of issuing Ordinances
as laws in case of emergency. Should one think Allah
as limited and restricted
to His own Authority of 'the most Just of the Judges' (11:45)
and 'Doer of
what He wills' (86:16)
! Allah
Almighty is very clearly explaining in
His Words:
Allah
effaces what He wills, and establishes (what He will), and with Him is the
source of ordinance (13:39)
That
is, Allah
Almighty erases that thing which He wills and established that which
He wills in His Loh-e-Qudrat (Tablet of Ability) and the Loh-e-Mahfooz. With
Him is the Mother Scripture (Source of Decrees 43:4) of the Loh
e Ilm
and it is
established fact that
Allah
alters the action and knowledge does not alter Allah.
But
instead, the course of action can be changed through knowledge. For example,
water flows downwards but we can fetch water upwards by using a pump and
fountain pump. Same like this all other decided courses can be altered through
knowledge. Allah
Almighty also says:
He
does what He wills (2:253)
He
ordains that which pleases Him (5:1)
Thus,
Allah
does all that what He wills and accomplishes all that which He desires.
None can stop Him. Then again Allah
Almighty
says: and Allah
has full power and control
over His Affairs, but most of mankind know not (12:21)
If
we observe deeply, the rise and fall, alteration and change and variation in
everything of the universe is clearly showing His Sovereignty and Dominance
with full control and ability and nothing appears to match our speculation and
hope and we cannot establish and firm opinion as to what will happen or
otherwise which clearly shows that the Hand of Ability is in the sleeve of the
implementations. This Ability, mostly, remains behind the curtain of the
sources but, at times of urgency, it removes the cuff of resources and comes in
action.
