Page 54 - Answers from the Qur'an

ANSWERS FROM THE QUR'AN
truth. Those who think that following the centuries-old tradi-
tions of their society is the best way to find the truth take for
granted that their society, or in more accurate words their ances-
tors, had the wisdom, knowledge, and reasoning to guide them
to the truth.
However, none of these so-called guides are able to do what
their adherents claim, for all of their systems are built upon
human wisdom, which is extremely inadequate, vulnerable,
weak, and limited. No person can acquire all of the knowledge
found in the universe, not even one billionth of it. Nor can any-
one resolve the many questions associated with this world. For
instance, they cannot explain what happens after death, a ques-
tion that has occupied people's minds since the beginning of
time, unless they read the truth that Allah conveys in the Qur'an.
The power of human wisdom does not increase when people
gather together in a society. When faced with the infinite infor-
mation inherent in the universe, humanity's collective mental
power is insignificant.
This being the case, assuming that the human mind can find
the truth—unless otherwise willed by Allah—is a totally un-
founded assumption, no more than a conjecture. Indeed, Allah
stresses this fact many times in the Qur'an and relates that all
disbelievers follow conjecture, for:
If you obeyed most of those on Earth, they would guide
you away from Allah's Way. They follow nothing but
conjecture. They are only guessing. (Surat al-An'am, 116)
For instance, all materialists who assert that the only life is
the life of this world and that death is a coincidental result of re-
lations between materials, rather than a special creation of Allah,
only follow conjecture. The Qur'an emphasizes the situation of
such people, as follows:
They say: "There is nothing but our existence in the
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