Here is
an excerpt from one of my old manuscripts which may seem pertinent in the present
perspective:
This
author’s thinking is based on the hypothesis that the universe has been objectively engineered with intended
perfection, but in order to allow a certain freedom of action and eventual
accountability there could be an intentional margin of deviation in God's
creations. After all, the disobedience of Satan must have been documented in
the Holy Qur’an with a purpose. True that God is perfect, but nowhere has He
proclaimed that any of His creations is also perfect. The imperfection of His
creations by no means diminishes His own greatness.
Scientists
had surmised that the Earth and the Moon had condensed from hot gases that had
spilled off the Sun, but recent discoveries haves shown that the compositions
of the Earth and the Moon differ from the Sun suggesting that the two were
formed at some remote spot in space and launched in orbit around the Sun as
also hinted in Verses 5 to 10 of Chapter 55 in Qur’an. It is possible that the Earth was targeted to
be inclined at a quarter of a right angle to its orbital plane, but actually it
turned out to be 23.5 degrees i.e. one degree more, or that the year was meant
to be exactly 360 days and not 365 and a quarter as it actually is or that the
lunar cycle was meant to be exactly thirty days but it strayed a little to
twenty nine and a half or so. A 30 day lunar month and a 360 day year would
seemingly have been a perfect combination; the phase of the moon would indicate
the date and the constellation would show the month and if we looked keenly
enough in the sky we might find a way to count the years as well. But since we
cannot change it we have no choice but to accept it as God’s wisdom. However,
we can change the course of rivers, harness the winds, seed clouds for rain and
defy gravity by flying machines to our advantage as God has given us authority
over the material universe – and we must advise and help others in finding the
right way of life.
Similarly,
disease, natural disasters and evils exist not because those were created by
God as spontaneous expressions of His wrath but as a consequence of the
imperfections of the creations; and God has set in motion a process of
evolution and guidance of human beings for the rectification of these defects
and for improvement in the quality of His creations. Adam failed the first test
he was put to and Satan rebelled on the first command he did not like. The
merciful God surely would not have built maladies, perversions and disasters
into His perfect plan of creation. Reflection on the relevant texts of the holy
Qur’an and the Bible suggests that the earth was originally planned to be a paradise
and eventually after its destruction and the Day of Judgment it will be
reconstructed as Paradise (Verse 36:81) for the pious and noble souls to live
in absolute bliss forever free from all natural disasters, bacteria, viruses
and diseases with plentiful supply of the most relished foods that will never
become stale. The perfect world to be created then is destined to last forever.
Even
more important is the fact that all the tangible knowledge of Physics, chemistry, biology, electronics,
mechanics and much of mathematics that is or will ever be
written in books is already at work in the human body and in the environment
around us. Birds can fly because they are aerodynamically designed by God and
they are born with the knowledge of aerodynamics so that they may glide or
propel themselves in air and take off and land safely. Man is not discovering
Science, but only learning to express what is already inherent in him, and so
is woman who is born with the ability to form a baby inside her. The rest is speculation.
