Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 309
AL-BAYYINAH – A MANIFEST PRINCIPLE. AND AL-QAYYIMAH - AN EVERLASTING TEACHING between the laws which govern the cosmos and the laws which govern the subatomic world. Their field is different and the context in which they operate is not the same either. . What man has discovered is only the fact that Newton's laws of dynamics are applicable only to the cosmos. Both categories of the laws are absolute and exist independently of man's ability or inability to understand them. Thus, absolute truth is not just a product of the human mind. It must exist independently. . Returning to the Quranic pronouncements, on the subject of rationality and its bearing on religious truths, the reader's attention is drawn to the following verses of the. Holy Quran which rule out the possibility of any contradiction in the universe created by God: لا مَا تَرَى فِي خَلْقِ الرَّحْمَنِ مِنْ تَفُوتُ فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرَى مِنْ فُطُورٍ ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنْقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ حَاسِئًا وَهُوَ حسير . . . 67:4-5. No incongruity can you see in the creation of the. Gracious God. Then look again: Do you see any flaw?. Aye, look again, and yet again, your sight will only return to you tired and fatigued. 3. THE QURAN FURTHER stipulates that likewise there can be. T no contradiction within the scriptural universe which is the Word of God (4:83, 21:23). Both the Word of. God which is revealed truth and the Work of God which is material universe, must be in perfect unison with each other. Thus Divine revelation can never be at odds with the laws of nature, both sharing the same Fountainhead of. Eternal Wisdom. This categorical denial of contradiction is 300