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Bhiwandi:
It was a mid-Ramadan, Sunday. Raining to confine you in home. Laziness
to leave the bed after Fajr salah - the morning prayers… However,
nothing stopped us from reaching to Rais High School campus here for
the audio-visual presentation by Dr. Md. Aslam Parvaiz, Principal of Zakir Husain
College, New Delhi and eminent researcher and scholar of Islam and
Science. Dr. Aslam, who
also edits New Delhi based Urdu monthly “Science”, was in Bhiwandi to deliver a lecture on 'Science, Understanding Qur’an and
the Guidance'. (Science, Qur'an Fehmi aur Hidayah)
Members of
Bazm-e-Ilm-o-Adab
-
Rais High School
Teachers’ literary body and the organiser of the seminar - were
there to greet everyone. By the time we reached the venue, despite
heavy rains more than 200 people had already occupied the seats in
the auditorium.
To begin the presentation, Dr. Aslam
explored three parts of the topic i.e. Science, Understanding Qura’n and
Hidayah - the Guidance, with the help of recognized dictionaries and
extracts by renowned
mufassireens
- the describers of the Holy Book. Subsequently, using the PowerPoint presentation he moved on
to explain the depth of the topic. The slides were self explanatory
and enriched with Dr. Aslam's valuable narrations. Every slide in
fact moved us into a world of amazement of divinity, laws to govern
the nature - right from tiny particles to the vast universe. It was
really overwhelming to learn how Allah had made it easier for the
people if they really want to know
Him.
Wondering how Science is taken just as
an another subject in our society to be taught in schools and
colleges, Dr. Aslam said, "Science means “Ilm”
- a complete knowledge of things.
It should be used as a tool to
look into the depth and study the laws of nature and divinity."
Rejecting the deeply rooted
notion in our society that studying Science
leads to becoming an atheist or
Munkir
or Kafir,
he said, "Science no doubt is a tool and whoever uses this tool with
conviction and honesty, would surely get the glimpse of Allah’s
spark in it."
At the same time he cautioned the
audience telling, "Science today is not the Science explained above.
It has its own limitations."
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Dr. Aslam urged
the audience... |
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"There
are clear signs for the mankind in every Ayah - the verses of Qura'n and
whoever ponders over them, hidayah - the Guidance is
certain." |
Pointing that some of us have a habit
of portraying every invention in Science as being present in Qur'an,
Dr. Aslam said, "It is true that we find something in Qur'am that
later scientists claim as an invention. But it does not mean
we start finding the roots of every scientific invention in Qur'an.
This phenomenon is not correct because Science many times takes a U
turn from whatever it has described as fake, forged and discarded."
"Conversely", he said, "Qura’n is not a book for any explained time. Its
implications and teachings are ageless and will guide every human
being
till the Day of Judgment. As one goes into the
details and descriptions of any
Aayah
- a verse from Qur'an - a miraculous voyage starts taking you to
eternity. This is not and never been possible for Science and any such known tools of
knowledge."
He described at length how everything
in this world is governed by the law of nature without moving a bit
from the duties conferred to them by the Almighty Allah. "This is
the real submission to the duties. However, Allah has created the
human beings with
Nafs
- the will power and has equipped us with five senses", Dr. Aslam
said and added, "It is through these senses that Allah exhorts the human
being
to think, ponder and reflect over His creations simultaneously testing them
if they submit to the Almighty."
Having described this, Dr. Aslam
cautioned the audience stating that these senses are incapable of
finding all the beings in reality. "They are very much limited and
many a time give exactly opposite results e.g. we
see things as red but the fact is that it absorbs other colours of
light and reflects red i.e. does not accept red! Meaning it is not
red. It is our perception that we call the things as red!", he said.
"Since our senses and Science have limitations,
using them we can never perceive the
unlimited existence
of cosmos and divinity. However, if we can
eulogize the creation to admire its Creator without visualizing, this
is
hidaya - the
guidance. Here we say that if you recognize The Creator by admiring
his creation you get hidaya and if you just stop at the
creation and its specifications you have deviated", Dr. Aslam said.
"It is however unfortunate that
Qur'an is perhaps the only book in the world which is read most of
the time without its readers understanding the verses", Dr. Aslam
said recalling how Qur'an is regarded as the most read book in the
world. In the end, urging the audience to think and
ponder over the verses of Qur'an, he concluded, "There are clear
signs for the mankind in every Ayah - the verses of Qura'n and
whoever ponders over them, hidayah - the Guidance is
certain."
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