Our God — Page 70
70 son of God is confirmed then, 1 اَنَا ُلَّوَا َنْيِدِبٰعْلا , meaning that, in this scenario, I would be the first to worship him. Thirsting for truth is our second nature, which we have inherited from our beloved Messenger saw. So, in principle, our answer would be that we will believe in whatever is truly established, no matter what that is. But the reality is that nothing can ever be established that puts the being of God in doubt, as that would amount to two estab- lished facts contradicting each other, and this is clearly impossi- ble. Is it possible, for instance, that, on the one hand, a magnet is scientifically established to attract iron to itself, and, on the other, that under similar circumstances it does not? Obviously not. As a remote possibility, if we did observe this, we will have to reject one of the two statements; i. e. we would have to believe that one of the two was not really an established fact but was mistakenly regarded as such. Therefore, if we were to say hypothetically that scientific research established that the universe has existed by itself since eternity and is operating by itself, even then we will not deny God simply for this reason, because the existence of God is also funda- mentally an established scientific fact. There is no reason that, on the basis of so-called research, we should give up an established fact, supported by observation since the beginning of creation. In this circumstance we will have to ponder over how far the new research put forward is established scientific fact, correct, and acceptable. Ponder deeply that scientific facts are accepted because they are based on logic, common sense, and academic and reason- able arguments based on observation and experiments. When 1. S u rah az-Zukhruf, 43:82.