Our God — Page 65
Logical Arguments for the Existence of God 65 Omnipotence. This also establishes with greater certainty that everything in the earth and the heaven is, directly or indirectly, for the benefit of man, as declared in the Holy Quran fourteen centuries ago: 1 َوُه ْيِذَّلا َقَلَخ ْمُكَل اَّم يِف ِضْرَاْلا اًعْيِمَج Whatsoever is in the world, whether in the earth or in the heaven, has been created by Him for your benefit. 2 َو َرَّخَس ْمُكَل اَّم يِف ِتٰوٰمَّسلا َو اَم يِف ِضْرَاْلا And Allah the Exalted has subjected all these things to you that you may learn their properties and benefit from them. Woe be to man! That which his Master had created for his guidance and progress, he has turned it into a cause for his error and ruin. 3 َلِتُق ُناَسْنِاْلا ۤاَم ٗهَرَفْكَا Ruin seize man! How ungrateful he is! Surely, this ingratitude can lead man to nowhere except ruin. It should be remembered here that the question of whether or not there is a God is truly beyond the scope of science and the boundaries within which scientists work. Science deals with the 1. S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:30. 2. S u rah al-J a thiyah, 45:14. 3. S u rah ‘Abasa, 80:18.