“And of His Signs is that He has created mates for you from your own kind that you may find peace in them…”
(Al Qur’ān – 30:21)
In His immaculate wisdom, God divided mankind into two sexes. Members of both these sexes are identical in their humanity. The basic formula of their physical constitution is the same. And yet the two differ widely in certain aspects of their physical configuration, their mental and psychological characteristics, their emotional and psychic urges. They complement each other. There is an astounding degree of complementarity between the two in so far as the physical make-up, emotional characteristics, and the urges of each complete those of the other.
What accounts for this is that the Creator in His wisdom has infused into men and women a strong desire, a thirst, and an urge which draws each to the other. It is this thirst that prompts them to establish, by their mutual effort, a home, a family, and a tribe, which also gives rise to the emergence of society, culture and civilisation.
Is it credible that this consummate wisdom was merely an accidental product of the blind forces of nature? Or alternatively, is it credible that a multiplicity of gods sought to achieve this beneficial objective by bringing into being innumerable men and women all endowed with this mutual yearning? The fact is that this phenomenon has only one explanation, that it represents the wisdom of the One All-Wise God. This is far too evident to be denied by any except those who suffer from intellectual myopia.