Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 509
THE FUTURE OF LIFE ON EARTH لا نَحْنُ قَدَّرْنَا بَيْنَكُمُ الْمَوْتَ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ * عَلَى اَن تبَدِّلَ أَمْثَالَكُمْ وَتُنْشِتَكُمْ فِى مَا لَا تَعْلَمُوْنَ * وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمُ النَّشَاةَ الْأوْلى فَلَوْلَا تَذَكَّرُوْنَ* 63-56:61. We ordained death for you and We shall not be prevented. . From changing your forms altogether and raise you unto something of which you have no knowledge. . And you have certainly learnt as to how you were raised during your first creation, why then do you not contemplate? 8. Thus the Quran facilitates for man his belief in the hereafter, but that is not all the argument there is to it: مَا حَلْقُكُمْ وَلَا بَعْكُمْ إِلَّا كَنَفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ بَصِيرٌ * 31:29. Your creation and your resurrection are only like the creation and resurrection of a single self. Verily. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. ". This is the verse which builds the subject further and opens up a new vista for man's understanding of the life after death. . The phenomenon of resurrection is related to the phenomenon of the birth of each individual. If one visualizes the initial embryonic stage of the fusion of the sperm with the ovum and tries to conceive from that vantage point the end product the birth of a fully developed child, it would seem impossible to believe that it would happen. Imagine the gigantic transformation from that insignificant fertilized egg into the live and kicking wonder of a baby, delivered at the end of nine months. A viewer who has not witnessed this transformation 484