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Rejecting God's Signs and Support In The Name of God
Niaz Aziz
There are some who try to use volumes of senseless
rhetoric to deny facts/truth/knowledge of any observed phenomenon. As if
truth itself is dependent upon the excuses one seeks to deny it. They are
not looking to seek knowledge, as GOD has commanded, but seeking *excuses*
to justify ignorance and remain regressed. The more excuses they seek,
the more they get. For them anybody who takes the initiative to sit and
study anything in the Quran that they do not wish to see becomes the "ulema"
of their sarcasm. If you were to show them statistical evidence of why
19 manifests so clearly in the Qur'an, you become "ulema". They will say
that the Quran is not meant for those they would like to call "statisticians
and mathematicians", but for those who have no inclinations to strive to
seek, learn or know anything.
They tend to say that the mysterious initials
are put in by GOD in the Qur'an as tools for Satan, though God Himself
called it Ayaatul Kitab (Signs of the Book)! They tend to imply that GOD
and Satan are teaming together to trick people into attaining certainty
that the Qur'an is from God! While they think that they personally are
better than Abraham, and all of the believers through time whose histories
have been narrated by God in the Qur'an, in that they are in no need for
such ("satanic", as they call it) proofs to attain certainty, regardless
of GOD's decision or choice on the matter.
To illustrate of the futility of their
excuses and their deep alluring to ignorance, I narrate the following scenario.
Obtaining knowledge of the observed fact that the sky is expanding, independant
of the literal words used by God in the Qur'an takes some inclination to
seek, understand and observe the world around us, and the inclination to
seek the knowledge of what is known about the world around us. The fact
that none of the steps involved in doing so is spelled out verbatim in
the Qur'an (except for the persistent directive from God to think, reflect,
ponder, study His Signs and seek knowledge), would not be an excuse to
remain ignorant of all the facts that prove that the sky is expanding.
If you were to show the link between 51.47 and the discovery of the expanding
universe, those who are inclined intend to persist in ignorance could ask
"Where did God say that you have to look through Hubble's Telescope? Where
does God say about red-shifted radiation? Have you personally verified
red-shifted radiation from all corners of the sky? (If not you are disobeying
17.36!). Where does God say that you have to study doppler effect and physics?
If you listen to their rhetoric carefully,
GOD would come forth as a champion of ignorance, who forbids people from
studying His Ayaat (Signs), or observe or witness anything in the world
around us. They are the perfect symbol for the decadence of intellect and
allergy towards knowledge in the "muslim" world today, which has been the
primary cause of their backwardness and regression, and I see this as an
expression of their abject fear of the truth.
Regardless of their stand, God tells us
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"We will show them Our Signs on
the horizons as well as within themselves, until it becomes manifest to
them (believers) that it is the Truth. Does your Lord not suffice as a
Witness for everything?" [41.53]
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