WHAT IF YOU FIND A WATCH IN THE SAND

Suppose you find a watch in the middle of a desert. What would you conclude? Would you think that someone dropped the watch? Or would you suppose that the watch came by itself? Of course no sane person would say that the watch just happened to emerge from the sand. All the intricate working parts could not simply develop from the metals that lay buried in the earth. The watch must have a manufacturer. If a watch tells accurate time we expect the manufacturer must be intelligent. Blind chance cannot produce a working watch.

But what else tells accurate time? Consider the sunrise and sunset. Their timings are so strictly regulated that scientists can publish in advance the sunrise and sunset times in your daily newspapers. But who regulates the timings of sunrise and sunset? If a watch can not work without an intelligent maker, how can the sun appear to rise and set with such clockwork regularity? Could this occur by itself?

Ayaat, Signs for the People

By Sh Mohamed Metwalli Al-Sha'rawee Allah Ta'ala wanted to show us that there is a God capable of everything, Allah who created man and everything in the universe for serving humankind and who also created the universe. He made things that are stronger than man...

The Spider, a sign of Allah

As a man cleans his house, he might see a spider that has woven its web in a corner of the house. If he realises that he ought to think about this creature which is normally of no importance to anyone, he will see new doors being opened for him. This tiny insect he...

The Ability to see the Signs of Allah

Say: "Praise be to Allah. He will show you His Signs and you will recognise them. Your Lord is not heedless of anything you do." ( Surat an-Naml: 93)In many societies today, the Qur'an is assessed very differently from what is the real purpose of its revelation. In...

Who Is Allah?

Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) described the greatness of Allah in the most beautiful way:"He is controlling the affairs of all the kingdoms. He commands and prohibits, creates and gives provision, and gives death and gives life. He raises and lowers...

The Quran on Human Embryonic Development:

In the Holy Quran, God speaks about the stages of man’s embryonic development: "We created man from an extract of clay. Then We made him as a drop in a place of settlement, firmly fixed. Then We made the drop into an alaqah (leech, suspended...

Looking and Seeing…

The Critical DifferenceBy Mirza Yawar BaigWe look with our eyes but we ‘see’ with our knowledge. We look at a man with sunken cheeks, walking bent a little forward and say to ourselves, ‘He must be poor and hungry.’ A physician looks at him and...