Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 665
NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST sand. You will not detect any highs or lows, or aboves and belows in their contour. وَيَستَلُونَكَ عَن الْجَبَالِ فَقُلْ يَنْسَفُهَا رَبّى نَسْفاً * فَيَذَرُهَا قَاعًا صَفْصَفًا * لَّا تَرَى فِيْهَا عِوَجًا وَلَا أَمْنَا * يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَّبِعُوْنَ الدَّاعِيَ لَا عِوَجَ لَهُ وَحَشَعَتِ الْأَصْوَاتُ لِلرَّحْمَن فَلَا تَسْمَعُ الأَ هَمْسًا * 20:106-109. And they ask thee concerning the mountains. Say, 'My Lord will break them into pieces and scatter them as dust. ‘And He will leave them as a barren, level plain, "Wherein thou wilt see no depression, or elevation. ". On that day they will follow the Caller straight, there being no deviation therefrom; and all voices shall be hushed before the Gracious God and thou shalt not hear but a subdued sound of footsteps. ". It will be God, the Perfect Leveller, Whose hand will bring about this amazing transformation. The mountains are mere figures of speech, indicating powerful states, nations and people. The Quran predicts that once their pride is shattered and they are finally humbled and straightened, only then will they be fit to respond to the humblest of callers unto God, who has no crookedness about him. Such destruction as described could only result from a holocaust of the magnitude of hundreds of nuclear explosions, which implies that man will not learn his lesson and the head of his arrogance will have to be bent by the sheer weight of this enormity. Along with this grim message of warning there is also a glorious message of hope that mankind will ultimately survive and be ushered into a new era of light. . Man will learn to mend his ways if not before, at least after tasting some of the fruits of his follies and defiance to. God. 623