The Qur’ān, chapter after chapter, invites the readers to look at the skies and great celestial bodies that are scattered like small particles in space. These celestial bodies move in their respective orbits with unfailing accuracy and harmony. We can gauge these celestial bodies’ unfailing accuracy and harmony with the fact that they have been moving and moving for centuries by the command of God but they have never collided. This is a great Sign of God. If we reflect on this one single fact that we can see with little effort, we can realise the Truth, the magnificence and omnipotence of God.
The Qur’ān (45:3) says that these are “Signs for those who believe.” The fact is that everything on earth, every living thing and every part thereof, large or small, is a Sign of God. For it reminds us of the power of creation of God. When we look at whatever is in the skies or whatever is on or beneath the earth, animate or inanimate, we can realise that the message everything around us gives is to indicate the distinctive nature of everything that God has created. And we wonder how miraculous God’s creation is!
It is not that we see this miraculous power of God only in the skies and the earth, but we can see the same power of God in our highly complex constitution. The Qur’ān (45:4) says: “And in your own creation, and in the animals God scatters on earth there are signs for people of sure faith.”
The question is why the Qur’ān says that these signs are perceptible only to the believers or to the ‘people of faith or sure faith’. Because it is faith that opens people’s hearts to realise the Truth, to receive the message that the great signs in the skies and the earth have for us. When faith or Iman touches the heart, it (the heart) softens and becomes far more receptive. Here, at this stage, we can also envision the role of faith in the life of human beings.
But what about those who do not believe? One who does not believe as a result of reflecting on these Signs is unlikely to believe in some other way. The Qur’ān (45:6) says in a straightforward manner: “Such are God’s Signs that We recount to you, setting forth the truth. In what discourse will they then believe, if they deny God and His revelations?” When one reaches this stage of denial, there seems to be no point of return, and thus he deserves Divine Chastisement and is condemned for life here and the hereafter. May God save us from such predicament.