Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times

Almost every Surah of the Quran presents Monotheism in one metaphor or the other; often presenting God the Creator and arguing from tangible to the intangible. Several Surahs have long passages presenting God the Creator to the whole of humanity. Here are the passages from the twenty fifth Surah of the Quran:

Exalted is He who has sent the Differentiator b down to His servant so that it may be a warning to all people. It is He who has control over the heavens and earth and has no offspring––no one shares control with Him––and who created all things and made them to an exact measure. Yet the disbelievers take as their gods things beneath Him that create nothing, and are themselves created, that can neither harm nor help themselves, and have no control over death, life, or resurrection.
The disbelievers say, ‘This can only be a lie he has forged with the help of others’––they themselves have done great wrong and told lies––and they say, ‘It is just ancient fables, which he has had written down: they are dictated to him morning and evening.’ Say, ‘It was sent down by Him who knows the secrets of the heavens and earth. He is all forgiving, all merciful.’ (1-6)

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Do you not see how your Lord lengthens the shade? If He had willed, He could have made it stand still– We made the sun its indicator– but We gradually draw it towards Us, little by little. It is He who made the night a garment for you, and sleep a rest, and made the day like a resurrection. It is He who sends the winds as heralds of good news before His Mercy. We send down pure water from the sky, so that We can revive a dead land with it, and We give it as a drink to many animals and people We have created. Many times We have repeated this to people so that they might take heed, but most persist in their ingratitude. (45-50)

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It is He who released the two bodies of flowing water, one sweet and fresh and the other salty and bitter, and put an insurmountable barrier between them. 54It is He who creates human beings from fluid, then makes them kin by blood and marriage: your Lord is all powerful! Yet instead of God they worship things that can neither benefit nor harm them: the disbeliever has always turned his back on his Lord. We sent you only to give good news and warning. (53-56)

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Yet when they are told, ‘Bow down before the Lord of Mercy,’ they say, ‘What is the Lord of Mercy? Should we bow down before anything you command?’ and they turn even further away. Exalted is He who put constellations in the heavens, a radiant light, and an illuminating moon– it is He who made the night and day follow each other– so anyone who wishes may be mindful or show gratitude. (60-62)

In the first few verses of this Surah, Allah Himself is making the case for ‘the Quran and Science’ or ‘the Quran and Cosmology,’ by claiming that the disbelievers, meaning people with wrong understanding, deny the Quran, yet it is a book revealed by One, Who knows all the secrets of the heavens and the earth!

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