Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 636
UNVEILING OF THE ‘UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN – A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE huge oil spills such as occur in our time. They are often ignited to minimize the horrendous threat they pose to marine life. At such times even hundreds of thousands of square miles of sea can be observed as literally set on fire. . The next verse from Surah Al-Takwir advances the same idea still further. Instead of the gathering of animals, it is humans who would be gathered together is the central message of this verse: وَإِذَا النُّفُوسُ زُوجَتْ * 81:8. And when people are brought together. 32. This too can be translated simultaneously into three different meanings as follows: 1. 2. 3. . When people will be linked together by mutually binding ties. . When people from all over the world will be merged together. . When the meeting of people together will be facilitated by means of much faster modes of transport. . Each of the three interpretations mentioned above has clearly come true. Ours is an age when international treaties bind practically all the nations of the world without exception. Hence, this interpretation has evidently come true and needs no further elaboration. . Likewise the founding of the League of Nations which was replaced later by the United Nations has evidently advanced the ultimate unification of the world a step further as predicted. . As for the fulfilment of the third prophecy implied in the same verse, we have already observed the distances to be virtually so reduced by the new modes of travel as to 596