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eople who conscientiously and wisely contemplate their sur-
roundings realise that everything in the universe – both animate
and inanimate – must have been created. The question is "Who
is the Creator of all these things?"
It is evident that "the fact of creation", which reveals itself in every
aspect of the universe, cannot be an outcome of the universe itself. For
example, a bug cannot have created itself. The solar system cannot have
created or organised itself. Neither plants, humans, bacteria, erythrocytes
(red-blood corpuscles), nor butterflies can have created themselves. Also
the possibility that all these could have originated "by chance" is not even
imaginable.
We therefore arrive at the following conclusion: Everything that we see
has been created, but nothing we see can themselves be "creators". The
Creator is different from and superior to all that we see with our eyes, a
superior power that is invisible but whose existence and attributes are
revealed in everything that exists.
This is the point at which those who deny the existence of Allah demur.
These people are conditioned not to believe in His existence unless they
see Him with their eyes. These people, who disregard the fact of "cre-
ation", are forced to ignore the actuality of "creation" manifest throughout
the universe and try to prove that the universe and the living things in it
have not been created. Evolutionary theory is an essential example of their
vain endeavours to this end.

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