Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 351
LIFE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF QURANIC REVELATIONS – A BRIEF INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. This is the principle verse which speaks of the plan of things covering the entire universe. The two fundamentals highlighted in this verse are as follows: a total absence of contradiction in the entire universe created by God and a stage by stage development of all that has been created. The latter is further elaborated in an attribute of God which is extensively used in the Holy Quran in relation to all رب الفلو creative processes. The word ( ✓); ) (Rabb ― a in this word is pronounced like u in but) invariably means someone who continues to evolve something from a lower to a higher stage. When a foal, for instance, is raised to the state of a fully grown horse with special care taken to improve its potential qualities the Arabs use the expression (Rabb-al-Fuluwwa) meaning that someone has brought up and trained the foal excellently. . Similarly, the same attribute ( ✓ ✓ ✓1) Al-Rabb is often translated as 'The Provident'. This indicates that God the. Creator also provides for all the subsequent stages of development of His creation. This leaves no doubt whatsoever as to the fact that the Quran speaks of creation only in step by step progressive stages which are well provided for, categorically rejecting the concept of spontaneous generation. Spontaneous generation is further rejected by the Quran because it violates the dignity of. God. Thus the following verses enquire from man remonstratively: 340 71:14-15 مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُوْنَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا * وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًا. What is the matter with you that you expect not wisdom and staidness from Allah?. While He has created you in different forms and ever varying states? ²