Before you finish reading this sentence, approximately one hundred billion (100,000,000,000) operations will have been completed inside your eyes.
The eye, the subject of this book, is one of those organs of the body that have kept evolutionists on the ropes ever since Darwin, who himself confessed, "I remember well the time when the thought of the eye made me cold all over." A close examination of the eye's structure and functions will make it clear why evolutionists have felt compelled to avoid it.
The unprecedented style and the superior wisdom inherent in the Qur'an is conclusive evidence confirming that it is the Word of God. Apart from this, there are a number of miracles verifying its Divine nature, one of them being that, 1,400 years ago, it declared a number of scientific facts that have only been established thanks to the technological breakthroughs of the 20th century. In this book, in addition to the scientific miracles of the Qur'an, you will also find messages regarding history and mathematics.
Throughout history, many societies have suffered from great
catastrophes because of their blasphemy and perversion against God. Some were
destroyed some by a volcanic eruption, some by a disastrous flood, and some by a
sand storm...
Perished Nations examines these penalties as revealed in the
verses of the Qur'an and in light of archaeological discoveries. You may also
read Qur'anic description of Noah`s flood and the Ark and the correspondence of
this account with the scientific evidence.
Are you close enough to Allah, the One Who created you and placed
you in this world, endowing you with wisdom and a body? When was the last time
you prayed to Him? Do you plead to Allah only when you are in trouble, or do you
always keep your mind occupied with His remembrance?
Are you aware that
Allah is very close to you, that He knows everything you think about or whisper?
Do you think of Him as your Lord, just as He is the Lord of all people? Or that
He is your most intimate friend and provider and that you should ask for
anything from Him?
People who are oppressed, who are tortured to death, innocent
babies, those who cannot afford even a loaf of bread, who must sleep in tents or
even in streets in cold weather, those who are massacred just because they
belong to a certain tribe, women, children, and old people who are expelled from
their homes because of their religion... Eventually, there is only one solution
to the injustice, chaos, terror, massacres, hunger, poverty, and oppression: the
morals of the Qur'an.
INTRODUCTION
What reason could you have for
not fighting in the Way of Allah-for those men, women and children who are
oppressed and say, 'Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from You!'?
(Surat an-Nisa': 75)
Around the globe, the majority of people are among
the oppressed. They are tortured, butchered, and live in abject poverty, are
homeless, are forced to live their lives unprotected from the elements and they
face disease without adequate medical care. There are those who cannot even
afford a loaf of bread. There are the elderly, facing neglect, abandonment and
denied medical care. Then there are those who face discrimination, expulsion
from their homes and lands simply because of their ethnicity, language, race or
tribe and even massacres. Helpless, malnourished, defenceless innocent children
are forced to work for money or beg.
Countless people live in fear for
their lives anxious about their survival, in a world in the midst of whose
poverty and oppression, there is also immense extravagance, privilege and
wealth. Those blessed with the "good life" pass by the homeless, see pictures,
and watch scenes on television of those less fortunate than they. Sometimes they
feel a brief moment of pity, but then change the channel, turn away from the
image, and in a short time completely erase that fleeting prick of the
conscience.
So many who enjoy the bounties and comforts with which they
have been blessed, never think of
expending effort to save those less
fortunate from the conditions in which they live. They believe it is not up to
them to save those people, when so many are richer and more powerful and in a
better position to come to the aid of the less fortunate.
However,
prosperity and power alone are not enough to save those people and to make this
world a place of welfare in which justice, peace, confidence and well-being
prevail. Despite the existence of developed countries around the world, there
are still too many countries, such as Ethiopia, where people still die daily of
starvation. It is apparent that the wealth and power of some nations are not
enough in
themselves to solve the afflictions of drought, poverty and civil
warfare.
Only being conscientious will channel resources and power
towards the welfare of the poor and desperate. The sole way of being
conscientious is having faith. It is only the believers who constantly live by
their consciences.
Eventually, there is only one solution to the
injustice, chaos, terror, massacres, hunger, poverty, and oppression in the
world: the values of the Qur'an.
Those adverse conditions were created
in the first place by hatred, malice, self-interest, indifference and cruelty
and therefore must be undone by love, compassion, mercy, generosity,
unselfishness, sensitivity, tolerance, commonsense and wisdom. These traits of
compassion are found only in those who fully live by the values taught in the
Noble Qur'an, which is our guidance directly from our Creator. In one verse,
Allah (swt) refers to the Qur'an's feature of leading mankind out of darkness
into light.
... A light has come to you from Allah and a Clear Book.
By it, Allah guides those who follow what pleases Him to the ways of peace. He
will bring them from the darkness to the light by His permission, and guide them
to a straight path. (Surat al Ma'ida: 15-16)
In another verse, Allah
states that everything would be in corruption and confusion if the truth were to
be according to human desires:
If the truth were to follow their
whims and desires, the heavens and the earth and everything in them would have
been brought to ruin. No indeed! We have given their Reminder, but they have
turned away from it. (Surat al-Muminun: 71)
As you read this
passage, millions of people are suffering, are cold and hungry, or facing
expulsion from their homelands. For this reason, people who have consciences
need to think about this, and act to solve those troubles as if they themselves
or their loved ones were facing them. We need to act both spiritually and
materially to alleviate the suffering and oppression. In one verse, Allah orders
conscientious and faithful people to assume this responsibility:
What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah -
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say, 'Our Lord, take us
out of this city whose inhabitants are wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You!
Give us a helper from You!'? (Surat an-Nisa': 75)
When we consider
the Qur'anic commands, it becomes obvious what are our obligations. The most
important thing for Muslims is first, to struggle in the intellectual domain so
that the values of the Qur'an and the Sunnah prevail over disbelief. The only
salvation for the weak, helpless, homeless and destitute is the practice of the
guidance of the Qur'an, which is directed to all humankind. Therefore, it is our
duty to spread the word and communicate the message, and that is a vital
component of worship for all Muslims.
Those who do not follow their
consciences, who are indifferent to the suffering of others, who spend their
wealth on frivolous and vain things, who fail to show concern for orphans, who
look coldly at oppressed woman, children and the elderly, and who are happy only
when there is immorality and ugliness in the world, will certainly have to give
an account in the hereafter.
Have you seen him who denies the deen
(religion)? He is the one who harshly rebuffs the orphan and does not urge the
feeding of the poor. So woe to those who do salat (regular prayers), whose
hearts from their salat are remote, those who show off and deny help to others.
(Surat al-Ma'un: 1-7)
In the Qur'an, God tells people many secrets besides acts of
worship and codes of good morals. The only source of these secrets, which are
beyond the reach of even the most educated, intelligent, investigative or
observant person in the world, is the Qur'an.
For those who learn these
secrets of the Qur'an, the life of this world is very easy, and full of joy and
excitement. This book deals with the subjects related to those verses God
related to people as a secret.
In this book we are going to tell you about a creature that you know quite well, that you meet everywhere without actually giving it much attention, that is highly skillful, highly social and highly intelligent - "The Ant". Our aim is to review the lives full of miracles of these minute creatures that are never of any significance in our daily lives.
Technology, collective work, military strategy, advanced communications network, an astute and rational hierarchy, discipline, perfect city planning… These are fields where human beings may not always be successful enough, but where the ants always are. When you look at these creatures, which are fully armed to defeat tough rivals and to endure the difficult conditions of nature, you may think that all of them are identical. However, each species of the ant genus – and there are thousands of them – has, in fact, different characteristics. We believe that these creatures that have the highest population in the world may open up new horizons for us within the framework of the characteristics referred to above. This book will reveal to us the special and marvelous world of ants. We shall witness the things these ant communities succeed with their tiny bodies and witness that there is absolutely no difference between their fossils, the oldest of which is about 80 million years old, and their counterparts living today, that run to approximately 8800 species.
In a body that is made up of atoms, you breathe in air, eat food, and drink liquids that are all composed of atoms. Everything you see is nothing but the result of the collision of electrons of atoms with photons.
In this book, the implausibility of the spontaneous formation of an atom, the building-block of everything, living or non-living, is related and the flawless nature of God's creation is demonstrated.
Eyesight cannot perceive God, but He has spread boundless evidence of His existence before the eyes of man. He has made manifest His infinite intelligence and knowledge in His chosen beings. With His endless grace, He gives unimaginable tasks to the most unexpected, humble, even brainless creatures.
As a result, many creatures, whether large or small, from birds to reptiles, from whales to insects, exhibit unexpected behaviour and actions that fill people with admiration. These behaviours are surprising to most people. Even man, who sees himself as an intelligent, knowledgeable and conscious being, is humbled in the face of many of these skills-for example, the spider's ability to produce strands stronger than steel-and does not even have the power to imitate them.
The subject of this book, the mosquito, is just one such creature, aspects of whose behaviour fill us with admiration.
However, it is the creature we are most used to and encounter most commonly of these, and possibly the one we give the least thought to and consider as worthless. So, why the mosquito? The answer to this question is given in the Qur'an:
God is not ashamed to make an example of a mosquito or of an even smaller thing. As for those who believe, they know it is the truth from their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, they say, "What does God mean by this example?" He misguides many by it and guides many by it. But He only misguides the deviators. (Qur'an, 2:26)
100 trillion cells in your body meets all your bodily needs without you being aware of them, thanks to a perfect communication system. This is carried out by your hormones.
The main thrust of this book is to display the impossibility of the coincidental formation of the extraordinary systems in living things, and to show the perfection in the creation of Allah with examples.
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