Through Force or Faith? — Page 225
Chapter 5 — Faith and Reason: Islamic Perspective 225 His word is the truth, and His will be the Kingdom on the day when the trumpet will be blown. He is the Knower of the unseen and the seen. And He is the Wise, the All- Aware ( S u rah al-An‘ a m, 6:74). In the last verse mentioned above, it is clearly stated that this uni- verse has been created by the God, who is all-Wise and all-Knowl- edgeable, according to ‘Bi’l- H aq’ (with attention to the demands of wisdom). This is with reference to the wisdom in the creation of physical form. But even more importantly the book which He has sent for the guidance in the spiritual realm fulfils the requirement of wisdom in every respect. The Nature and Reality of the Statement of Ibn H azm The Pope has presented a statement of Ibn H azm that, according to Islamic perspective, God is not bound even by His own Word, and nothing can oblige God to reveal the truth to us, and if He wills, man shall have to do idol worship. Before we analyse the essence of this statement, it is imperative to understand that, in Islam, the foundation of its doctrines is Quran and only Quran, which is the word of God. Next to it are the pronouncements of the Prophet s as of God, which are in fact commentary of the Holy Quran, and because of the special affinity that the Holy prophet s as had with God and Quran, he derived them from the Holy Quran and presented to us in simplified form. Therefore, any statement that is attributed to the Holy Prophet s as but is contradictory to the Holy Quran is not acceptable to Muslims. Thus, when this