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WHY DOES
THE QURAN NOT MENTION
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL
DEVELOPMENTS EXPLICITLY, SO
THAT EVEN THE MOST
RECALCITRANT UNBELIEVERS
WOULD FEEL
COMPELLED TO AFFIRM IT, AND
OUR MINDS BE EASED?
Religion is
for examination, a test and
trial offered by God so that
in the area of competition
elevated spirits and base ones
may be distinguished from each
other. Just as raw materials
are put in the fire so that
diamond and coal, gold and
earth, separate out from one
another, so too, in this arena
of trial the Divine
obligations are for testing
conscious beings and putting
them to a competition so that
the precious ‘ore’ in the
‘mine’ of human potential
may be separated from the
dross. Since the Qur’an was
sent for man to be perfected
through trial in this abode of
testing, in this arena of
competition, for sure it will
only allude to the future
events pertaining to the
world, which everyone will
witness in due course of time,
and will only open the door to
reason to a degree that proves
its argument. If it had
mentioned them explicitly,
then the purpose for testing
men would have been
meaningless. Simply, the truth
of the Divine obligations or
proposals would have been as
evident as if inscribed with
stars on the face of the
skies. Then everyone would be
left no alternative other than
affirming them. There would be
no competition, the testing
and trial would mean nothing.
A spirit like coal would
remain together with, and
appear to be of the same
degree as, a spirit like
diamond.
In short:
The Quran is wise. It
affords everything a position
in proportion to its value.
Thus, one thousand three
hundred years ago, the Quran
saw the progress man would
realize and its fruits which
were then hidden in the
darkness of the Unseen, the
future, and showed them in a
form better than we see and
shall see. That means the Quran
is the Word of One Who sees at
the same instant all time and
all within it.
All
that we have explained so
far is only one gleam of
the Quran’s
miraculousness which
shines on the ‘face’
of the miracles of the
Prophets.
O God!
Enable us to understand
the mysteries of the Quran
and make us successful in
the service of it at every
instant and at all times.
Glory
be to You! We have no
knowledge save what You
have taught us. Surely,
You are the All-Knowing,
the All-Wise.
O God!
Bestow blessings and peace
and benedictions and honor
on our master and lord,
Muhammad, Your servant and
Prophet and Messenger, the
unlettered Prophet, and on
his family and Companions
and wives and descendants,
and on all the other
Prophets and Messengers,
and on the angels made
near unto You, and on the
saints and the righteous:
bestow on them the most
excellent of blessings and
the purest peace and the
most abundant
benedictions, to the
number of the suras
of the
Quran, and its verses,
and words and letters, and
its meanings and
indications and allusions
and references, and
forgive us, and have mercy
on us and be gracious to
us, our God, our Creator,
for the sake of each of
those blessings, through
Your Mercy, O Most
Merciful of the Merciful!
And all praise be to God,
the Lord of the Worlds.
Amen.
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