Saturday, November 28, 2020

ALLAH (S.W.T.)'S BOUNTIES AS SIGNS OF GUIDANCE FOR MANKIND

 

Surah Yasin, the heart of the Glorious Qur’an, describes the bounties of the Creator in Ayahs from 33 to 42. The best way of having faith in Resurrection is in pondering on the creations of Allah. The plants, animals and human beings are clear signs of the great knowledge applied in its creation. Allah gives life to the dead earth by rain out of which grain is produced which is the food for man. Next Allah mentions fruits specially the dates and the grapes which is a complete food. Earlier Allah mentioned rain to enliven the dead earth. Next, He (s.w.t.) states water springs which comes out of the earth. One of the scientific miracles of the Glorious Qur’an is the statement of the law of matrimony in all things: plants, human beings and that which people did not know at that time and now they know! Matrimony includes humans, animals on the earth, and in the depth of oceans or even the existence of the positive or negative particles inside the center of atoms and the electrons which rotate around it.

Night is one of the Signs of Power and Wisdom of Allah. It is a fixed program in the length of history which has no disorder! The main nature of the earth is darkness and light is given to it from another source which is the sun. The sun is in motion. There are few interpretations of this motion; some suggest that beginning spring sun’s motion from the equator towards North Pole by as much as 23 degrees and beginning of summer it returns to equator. It continues its motion towards South until the beginning of winter then it moves towards Equinox and reaches it by Spring. Others suggest it is suns’ motion on its axis. The latest scientific discovery is that the sun moves with the solar system amid our galaxy toward an appointed direction towards a distant star called ‘Weca’. The movement of this very great globe (sun) which is one million two thousand times bigger than the earth and with an accurate movement in the endless atmosphere, is possible by no one save by Allah Whose Power is above all powers and Whose Knowledge is infinite! The orbits of the sun and the moon is arranged by Him in such a way that they will never crash into each other. The moon’s stages are the twenty eight places it passes before its absence in the last nights of a lunar month because when a lunar month is fully thirty days, the moon is visible in the sky until the twenty eight night but appears very narrow with a yellow color and little light. It is not visible during the ‘two remaining nights’ which is called in Arabic/muhaq. These stages are completely exact and accurate in a manner that the astronomers can foretell them one hundred years in advance. At the beginning the tips of the crescent are upward and by the twenty-eight night the tips are downward. The night never outstrips the day. The Ayah of the Glorious Qur’an, “Each swim along in (its own) orbit.” refers to each of sun, moon, night, and day. The day has an orbit for itself and always half of the earth is dark while another half has light and these two turns around the earth once for twenty-four hours.

One of the signs of Allah is the ships/boats in oceans. They provide means of transportation for people and merchandise These are the might and forces of Allah who made it subservient to mankind. The other means of communication is the modern, cars, trains, airplanes, and space vehicles.

Sources: Tafsir-e-Namouna (Urdu translation of the Glorious Qur’an) by Ayatullah Naser Makarem                       Shirazi

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