4b. Oneness of Allah as the Absolute Creator and Sustainer ... continue

TAUHIID AL-KHALIQ-QIYYAH WAR-RUBUB-BIYYAH

(Attestation to the Oneness of Allah, as the Creator and the Sustainer)

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إِنۡ أَتَّبِعُ إِلَّا مَا يُوحَىٰٓ إِلَىَّ‌ۚ قُلۡ هَلۡ يَسۡتَوِى ٱلۡأَعۡمَىٰ وَٱلۡبَصِيرُ‌ۚ

أَفَلَا تَتَفَكَّرُونَ

"I but follow what is revealed to me." Say: "Can the blind be held equal to the seeing?" Will ye then consider not? "

(Qur'an: Surah al-An'am: 6:50)

THE HUMAN EYE 1

The eye is the world’s most efficient television station: it takes flawless pictures in colour and transmits them without the least blurring to the brain. It takes a photographer to appreciate fully the working of the eye. Like any camera it is a small dark box, with an aperture in front, fitted with a transparent pane. In front of the pane there is a shutter of variable speed (the iris) with an adjustable slit and automatic release. Behind, there is the crystalline lens whose curvature is continually adjusted by automatic muscles, so that whatever is looked at is always sharply in focus. Six large powerful muscles control the movements of the eye and point it in any desired direction.

The delicate parts of this precision instrument are kept clean by the eyelids which are window-wipers and use a cleaning fluid secreted by the gland at the corner of the eye and poured in through a siphon. A constant temperature is main­tained, as in any laboratory with highly sensitive apparatus, by means of a heat regulating membrane, the choroid. The pho­tographic plate of the eye is a small screen at the back, the retina, on to which the images of the things we see are focussed. The retina can take 10 different pictures each second or 800,000 pictures a day, wiping itself clean after each. It is so 'fast' that 30,000 separate points of light can be recorded by a single square millimetre (the size of a nail head) of its surface. All the pictures are in vivid colour, with sharp outlines, and delicate shading; they are, besides, movies and in 3-dimensions, thanks to the stereoscopic focus of the two eyes.

Obvious conclusion

From the foregoing, we cannot imagine that the eyeballs, with its intricate function, capable of interacting with light and images, but has been formed while in the darkened environment of the womb, to merely evolve out of chance - nor do we absurdly attribute this to the mother's effort - but surely, this evidently points to a Creator, Fashioner, Sustainer - Whose handiworks should not be denied, except by those who are arrogant. It is not accidently placed strategically in the head, within the socket of the skull - which was similarly fashioned by the same Designer and not evolved merely out of chance. Again, those who see this (pun intended to both, 'seeing' literally and metaphorically), we should exclaim glorification:

"SubhaanAllah! Alhamdulillaah! Mashaa-Allaah! Allahu Akbar!"

Empirical science can only explain the "how" or the workings of physics, but never the "why" - whose meaning lies in metaphysic. Why does it work that way? It must be because of an irresistable "Will", that must have prepared it for its future functional use outside the womb. The scientific fact shows that its existence and sustainment - forming while yet in the dark - points to an "Intelligent Being” that determines it, which must be outside of creation, Who is both its Creator and the Sustainer. It is impossible for anything so meaningful and complex and yet orderly in its function to exist without the need for Allah s.w.t., the Absolute One God, Who is the Creator, Sustainer, Nourisher of the Universe

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1. ibid. "God Arises - Evidence of God in nature and in Science" by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (The Islamic Centre, New Delhi -1991).

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