Surah An-Naml (27) — Ayah 64

(Ayah 64) ➊ { اَمَّنْ يَّبْدَؤُا الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيْدُهٗ:} This simple statement, which has been expressed in a single sentence, contains such details that the deeper a person delves into them, the more evidence he finds for the existence of God and the oneness of God. First, just look at creation itself; human knowledge has not yet discovered the secret of how and where life comes from! To this day, the established scientific fact is that life cannot arise spontaneously from the mere combination of inanimate matter. The accidental coming together of all the factors required for the emergence of life, in exactly the right proportions, and life coming into existence by itself, is certainly an unscientific hypothesis of the atheists, but if the mathematical law of probability is applied to it, the possibility of its occurrence is no more than zero. All the attempts made so far in scientific laboratories to produce living matter from non-living matter by experimental methods, despite using all possible means, have been completely unsuccessful. At most, what has been discovered is only the substance known in terminology as "DNA." This is the substance found in living cells. It is certainly the essence of life, but it is not itself alive. Life is still, in itself, a miracle, for which no scientific explanation has been given except that it is the result of the command, will, and plan of a Creator. After this, look further: life is not found merely in an abstract form, but in countless diverse forms. So far, about 1 million species of animals and about 200,000 species of plants have been discovered on the face of the earth. These millions of species are so clearly and definitively distinct from each other in their structure and specific characteristics, and have maintained their respective species forms continuously since the earliest known times, that apart from the creative plan of one God, it is beyond the capacity of any Darwin to give any other reasonable explanation for this great diversity of life. To this day, not a single link has been found anywhere between two species that has broken out of the structure and characteristics of one species and is still struggling to reach the structure and characteristics of another species. The entire record of fossils is devoid of any such example, and even among existing animals, this ambiguous intermediate has not been found anywhere. To this day, every individual of any species that has been found, has been found with its complete species form, and every story that is occasionally told about the discovery of some supposed link, after a short time, the facts deflate it completely. At this time, the fact is absolutely established that it is only a Wise Maker, the Creator, the Originator, the Fashioner, who has granted life these millions of diverse forms.

This is the matter of the beginning of creation; now consider the repetition of creation. The Creator has placed such an amazing system of operation in the structure and composition of every species of animal and plant that, out of its countless individuals, it continuously produces an innumerable progeny with exactly the same species form, temperament, and characteristics, and never, even by mistake, do any of these millions upon millions of tiny factories make the error of producing a specimen of one species from the reproductive factory of another species. The observations of modern genetics present astonishing facts in this matter. Every plant has been endowed with the ability to make such a complete arrangement to continue its species to future generations, so that the coming generation possesses all the distinguishing characteristics of its species, and every individual is distinguished from all individuals of other species by its species form. This arrangement for the survival of the species and reproduction is present in a part of a single cell of every plant, which can barely be seen even with the most powerful microscope. This tiny engineer, with complete accuracy, directs the entire growth of the plant precisely along the path of its own species form. It is due to this that, from a single grain of wheat, all the plants that have ever been produced in the world have produced only wheat. Nowhere, in any climate or environment, has the accident occurred that a single grain of barley has been produced from the lineage of a wheat grain. The same is the case with animals and humans: their creation did not happen just once and stop, but on an unimaginably vast scale, everywhere, a great factory of the repetition of creation is running, which continuously brings into existence countless individuals of each species from the individuals of that species. If a person were to see the microscopic reproductive seed that contains all the species distinctions and hereditary characteristics in just a part of its tiny existence, and then observe the extremely delicate and complex organic system and the extremely subtle and intricate operations by which the reproductive seed of every individual of every species brings forth an individual of the same species, he could not, even for a moment, imagine that such a delicate and complex system of operation could ever come into being by itself, and then continue to function correctly by itself among billions of individuals of different species. This thing not only requires a Wise Maker for its origin, but also, at every moment, requires a Regulator and Manager, a Living and Self-Subsisting One, who is never, even for a moment, heedless of supervising and guiding these factories. These facts cut at the root of an atheist's denial of God just as they do at the root of a polytheist's polytheism. What fool can imagine that in this work of divinity, any angel, jinn, prophet, or saint has even the slightest share? And what person of sound mind, free from prejudice, can say that this entire factory of creation and repetition of creation, with such perfect wisdom and order, started by chance and continues to run by itself? (Tafheem-ul-Quran)

➋ { وَ مَنْ يَّرْزُقُكُمْ مِّنَ السَّمَآءِ وَ الْاَرْضِ:} The matter of providing sustenance is also not as simple as a person might superficially feel after reading these brief words. On this earth, there are millions of species of animals and millions of species of plants, each of which has billions of individuals, and each has different nutritional needs. The Creator has provided for the food of each species in such abundance and so close to their reach that no individuals of any species are deprived of food here, and then, in this arrangement, so many different forces of the earth and sky work together that it is difficult to count them. If heat, light, air, water, and the various substances of the earth do not cooperate in exactly the right proportions, not even a particle of food can come into existence. Who can imagine that this wise arrangement could have happened by chance without the planning and design of a Manager? And who, while in his senses, can think that in this arrangement, any jinn, angel, or the soul of any saint has any role? (Tafheem-ul-Quran)

➌ { قُلْ هَاتُوْا بُرْهَانَكُمْ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ صٰدِقِيْنَ:} That is, bring some evidence that there is any deity besides Allah or along with Him. Obviously, they have no evidence for this, as Allah Almighty has said: «{ وَ مَنْ يَّدْعُ مَعَ اللّٰهِ اِلٰهًا اٰخَرَ لَا بُرْهَانَ لَهٗ بِهٖ فَاِنَّمَا حِسَابُهٗ عِنْدَ رَبِّهٖ اِنَّهٗ لَا يُفْلِحُ الْكٰفِرُوْنَ }» [ المؤمنون : ۱۱۷ ] "And whoever invokes another deity along with Allah, for which he has no evidence, then his account is only with his Lord. Surely, the disbelievers will not succeed." So when you have no evidence for this, how does it make sense to you that creating, providing sustenance, and all these other acts belong to Allah, but worship is done for someone else besides Him or along with Him? {’’ بُرْهَانَكُمْ ‘‘} (Your evidence) That is why it is said, in reality, there is no evidence; if you have made up any evidence, then present it.