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the unchanged words of religious savants. But, it is a pity, such
religious books are almost nonexistent today. On the other
hand, it is deplorably seen that most of the books that carry the
names of great Islâmic savants and which are sold as
translations from them contain harmful additions, deletions and
changes. What is even more pathetic to realize about these
existing books, some of which are quite well-known, is that a
number of ignorant people have been carrying on this business
of writing books for centuries, adapting some âyats and hadîths
to the wrong scientific teachings of their times and thereby
giving them wrong and funny meanings. What pleases the
enemies of the religion most is to see Muslims deny (because
of some ignorant do-gooders) facts that are proven through
science and which are evident. For this will help them mislead
younger generations. If scientists say that matter, the cell, the
living and the lifeless came to being later while they had been
nonexistent, it does not harm Islâm whether they came to
existence incidentally in the sea or through some other way; for
it is Allahu ta’âlâ who makes everything.
“Their ideas of the third type are those which disagree with
what is declared clearly in the Sharî’at. All of these things are
hypotheses, that is, suppositions or fabrications under the
curtain of science, fruits of sheer bigotry and ignorance. That
everything was created out of nothing, that Hadrat Âdam’s
body, which was made from sticky mud, came to life by
changing into flesh and bones, that Allahu ta’âlâ exists with His
Attributes, the things that will happen at the end of the world,
and the Resurrection are all within the principles of îmân. One
should not believe in thoughts that disagree with these or that
will ruin the belief in these realities. A real scientist will not utter
words disagreeing with these beliefs because they are not
things which disagree with science. It is necessary to persuade
everybody to believe in them and to refute those who oppose
them.”
Hadrat Âdam’s children multiplied and spread over Arabia,
Egypt, Anatolia and India. During the time of Hadrat Noah (Nûh)
‘alaihis-salâm’, they were all drowned in the Flood; only those
on board the ship were saved. People multiplied from these
survivers. As a result of their numbers increasing in the course
of time, they spread over Asia, Africa, Europe, America and
Oceania, that is all over the world. This migration was both by
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