to make its body look like a snake’s, how it would set ideas and formulas.
rmulas. Gravity, for example, can be
What kind of a snake is this? Poisonous, non-poisonous?
Can you tell by it’s eyes and shape of it’s mouth?
The animal on this page is not a snake but a tiny
caterpillar. This animal protects itself from its enemies by
its similarity to a snake. When attacked by an enemy, this
tiny creature calmly turns its tail towards its enemy and
puffs it up. At that moment,
a dreadful snake shows up right in the face of the enemy,
which has no other choice but to run away and save itself.
The caterpillar’s tail looks so much like a snake that even
the sparkle of the eye, within the dark spots that stand for
the snake’s eyes, is not left out. How did the caterpillar
acquire such a trait? Such a striking "design" must
unquestionably have a satisfactory explanation. Now, let us
examine the scenarios that could be fabricated as an
answer to this question:
Scenario 1: Many years ago, a caterpillar looking for ways
to protect itself from enemy attacks started carefully
observing its surroundings. It one day realized that all its
enemies are afraid of snakes. At that moment, it looked at
its body and decided to make it "look like" a snake. (We
cannot provide an explanation as to how it would manage
up its outward appearance, the color of its skin and the
shape of its body to look like a snake! Let us say that it
would "do its best, force itself and, in the end, do
something". It, however, had a very limited time to
"change". For it would spend a very short time of its
life as a caterpillar, and then it would become a
butterfly and fly.
Scenario 2: Trees, flowers, insects, the sky, water, rain,
sun and, in brief, all powers prevalent on earth united to
establish a system for themselves and simply added a
tail to the caterpillar within this system!
Scenario 3: The great power called coincidence (!) has
added a snake-like tail to the caterpillar just as it gave
various things to all living beings.
One does not have to be very intelligent to see the
inconsistencies in these scenarios, all based on a
random explosion that brought things together,
unguided by chance. Believing in such unguided
evolution would be like believing that an explosion in a
junkyard could turn scrap metal into toasters and cars
that fall down in mint condition! Believe it’s possible?
Of course not! Similarly, assuming that a caterpillar
could by “chance” come to look like a snake, or that the
amoeba has evolved into us, the humans, should sound
as silly.
Pretend you found three bricks stacked perfectly on
top of each other. Would you assume that each brick
had crawled on top of the other? Of course not!
Logically, you would presume that some force--
probably some person had placed them that way. Why
then, when looking at the creations of this world do we
assume that everything came together by chance--with
no guidance or Creator. Stop and think about the
creations around you for a moment. Everything works
in a perfect, harmonious balance. Examples of this
perfection abound. The caterpillar that makes itself
look exactly like the snake that preys on its enemies,
the flower designed to be pollinated by the bee that flies
to other flowers of the same species, or the mosquito
that has “night vision” to see the infrared
radiation given off by a human.
Many people continue to look to science for the
eventual explanations to the order in our universe.
They argue that we are only limited in our knowledge
because science is still limited and it is only a matter of
time before science ‘discovers’ how the entire solar
system came into being. They put faith in an unproven
“unseen” that can’t explain creation, but only supplies
described by equations and formulas, but can it really
be explained? We don’t really know why it works. It
just does. If you keep asking “why” scientific theories
work, eventually, the answer of “we don’t know why”
will come up.
What about the idea that existence is governed
according to the theory of survival of the fittest? If
one were to apply this theory to humans, it would
make little sense for a mother to spend thousands of
dollars trying to cure her sick child and it would make
perfect sense that we dispose of sick parents when
they become too burdensome for us. Doing so would
help our species become even more fit. Yet instead of
sounding logical this behavior only sounds revolting.
Why?
Look to your own self. Humans have morals, a
sense of guilt. How did this became installed in us?
We feel a need to seek justice when we’ve been
wronged, and to seek forgiveness when we’ve
wronged others. All humans are conscious of good
and evil to some degree. This shows that humankind
is not just an animal, but a higher being.
Does one think that life can be lived however one
pleases, with neither accountability for evil deeds nor
recounting of luxuries wasted? Our own moral selves
seek justice when we’ve been wronged, and strive to
thank others for favors received. How then, does it
make sense that there would be similar accountability
in the Hereafter? A Muslim scholar put it well when
he said, “...Unless one comes to believe in the absurd
idea that a rational being like man has stumbled into
an irrational system of the universe, and the moral
being, like man, has happened to be born in a world
which has nothing to do with morality; he cannot deny
the life hereafter..”
One of the main reasons people choose to deny a
Creator, a religion, and a Hereafter is that in doing so
they have to go against their desires. Many people
have made their own desires into a god. And while
they don’t deny the possibility of a hereafter or a
resurrection, believing in those things places certain
moral restrictions on them, which they dislike. The
easiest way to avoid such moral restrictions which are
inevitably imposed by the belief in the Creator, is to
deny that such a Creator exists.
Love and adoration of the materialistic world and
headlessness of death lead many people to
expend all their energy attaining materialistic benefits,
pleasures and joys and think that if they can attain such
things, they will be happy. Likewise, they think that the
loss, trouble and grief that one may face in the world
should be avoided at all costs, no matter how great a
reward it might be worth in the Hereafter.
Another dangerous attitude that many people take
regarding the Creator is as follows: “Fine, there is a
creator.. I believe that God exists and that He created me.
Now can I go on with my life?” Thus one can find an
equilibrium in admitting that there is a creator, but then
quickly confining Him to a small place in their life. Doing
so enables one to continue living however one wants with
the comfort that God approves of it all. Upon reflection,
one realizes that this attitude is not new. In the past, people
used to carve their own God from a stone, formatting its
size, shape, height, and dress to their desires. After doing
so, they would worship it--the very thing they had created
from an idea in their mind.
People are doing something similar by defining what
God approves and disapproves of and then worshiping
Him however they see fit. Furthermore, they speak freely
on their God’s behalf saying what they think He feels
about different deeds and actions and how He will judge
people. Is it really up to a person to decide? Did we decide
when to be born? Where to be born? Did we have any
power to decide who our parents are? Can we decide when
we are going to die? Or how many stars are in our
universe? How many atoms are there in our bodies? Didn’t
you ever have a bad day where everything went against
what you planned for?
How can a creation incapable of deciding its own
affairs be so arrogant to freely decide for their Creator?
When you observe a car you find many different parts
such as an engine, fuel tank, child safety locks, and a
steering wheel. Is it possible that whoever designed all
those parts designed them for a purpose while the whole
car is designed for no purpose??
Similarly, if you observe your own self you will find
that every part of the human body is carefully deigned for
a purpose, the stomach, white blood cells, the retina, eye
lashes, and so on.. Do you really think that every part of
you serves a purpose while you as a whole was created
without any purpose? What do you think the purpose of
life is? Why were you created? What happens after death?
Such are the questions that can only be answered by the
One Whom created. For sure He didn’t create us and leave
us with no guidance. Isn’t it time for you to stop and seek
answers to such important questions? But where can you
find the answers?
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a punishment as others think Rather this worldly life is
a Test.. And Life goes much more beyond this finite
Evolution?
short worldly stage.
You might be thinking “There are so many religions
in the world, how can anyone claim Islam is The right
religion?” Actually, instead of any Muslim claiming
Islam is right, it is better for you to compare all
religions with the proper criterion, and draw your own
It all
conclusion. What is this criterion?
1) A religion should clearly answer difficult questions
such as : Why do bad things happen? Why is there
happened by
evil in the world? Why is there human suffering?
What is our purpose in life? Why are there so many
religions?
Chance?
2)The revelations being referred to should be perfect
and accurate, free from mistakes, omissions,
interpolations and multiplicity of versions. It should be
free from contradictions in its narration and in its
original form.
3)The revelations do not contradict scientific
discoveries: such as the span of human existence on
earth.
4)The revelation should be infallible and not inimitable
by man. The revelations are an open book challenging
all mankind to see and prove for themselves its
authenticity.
5) Revelations contain factual prophesies
6)The main message should be clear and abundant in
the text. Simple to understand without relying on others
to explain ambiguous statements and ‘hidden’
meanings.
7) The religion is universal, for all people, places and
time. It is as old as the first human being with the same
consistent, unchanging message of worship
Islam meets this criterion, and even openly challenges
mankind in The Qur’an to find a mistake in it! Isn’t it
time you search for the truth?.
There is one kind of evolution you can be sure IS
true! One day your body will be placed into the ground,
and it will evolve back to the dust and clay from which
it came. This you can’t escape! What happens then?
Where will you go? Can the theory of evolution explain
that?