God Arises Religion and Society
“And thy Lord inspired the bees, saying: Choose thou habitations in the hills and in the trees and in that which they thatch” (16:68). There are innumerable such instances which show the probability of there being some consciousness outside things which instructs them as to their mode of living. Sir Arthur Eddington has asserted that the modern quantum theory is a scientific affirmation of revelation. This statement of the Quran—”And He inspired in each heaven its mandate” (41:12)—is perhaps far more understandable to the 20th century man than it could have been to the 7th century man at the time when Quran was revealed. If we admit that the source of the laws of nature that govern everything from the stars and planets to the biological aspects of human life, is the revelation which is received by everything from the universal consciousness, we have less difficulty in accepting the parallel belief that, for the psychological part of man too, laws must stem from that same external consciousness.
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