110. It means this: If you are not demanding a miracle only for the sake of
fun and amusement but want to have the satisfaction whether that to which Muhammad
(peace be upon him) is inviting you (i.e. Tauhid and the Hereafter) is true
or not, then God’s those signs which you are observing and experiencing at all
times, are quite enough. For there remains no need for other signs when there
are these signs to help you understand the truth. This is the third answer to
their demand of the miracles. This answer also has been given at several places
in the Quran and we have given detailed commentary on it. (
(See Surah Al-Anaam, Ayats 37-39);
(Surah Younus, Ayat 101);
(Surah Ar-Raad, Ayats 7- 13);
(Surah Ash-Shuara, Ayats 4-9) and the E.Ns thereof).
The animals which serve man on the earth, especially the cow, ox, buffalo,
sheep, goat, camel and horse, have been created with such nature by the Creator
that they easily become man’s domestic pet servants and he uses them to fulfill
countless of his needs. He rides on them, employs them for carrying loads and
in agriculture, get milk from them which he drinks and also uses it for making
curd, butter, oil, condensed milk, cheese and different sorts of confectioneries;
eats their flesh, uses their fat, and puts to good uses their wool and hair
and skin and intestines and bones, even their blood and dung. Is it not a manifest
proof that the Creator of man has created these animals even before creating
him in view of his countless needs, on a special pattern so that he may use
them to advantage?
The three-fourths of the earth’s surface is under water and only one-fourth
is dry land. In the dry parts also there are small and wide tracts of land which
are separated by water. The spreading of human populations on the dry lands
and the establishment of commercial and other relations between them could not
be possible unless water and oceans and winds were made subject to such laws
as would make navigation possible, and such materials were made available on
the earth, which man could employ for building ships. Is it not an express sign
that there is One God and only One All-Powerful, All-Merciful and All-Wise Lord,
Who has made man and earth and water and oceans and winds and everything on
the earth according to His own special scheme? Rather, if man only considers
from the viewpoint of navigation, how the positions of the stars and regular
movements of the planets are helpful in it, he will have the testimony that
not only of the earth but of the heavens also that the Creator is the same One
Bountiful Lord.
Then, consider also this: Can you in your right senses imagine that the All-Wise
God, Who has given His countless things in the control of man and has granted
him all these provisions for his well-being, will be, God forbid, so blind of
the eye and so thoughtless as would never call man to account after giving him
all this?
112. That is, they took their philosophy and their science, their law, their
secular sciences and their mythology and theology invented by their religious
guides as the real knowledge, and regarded the Knowledge brought by the Prophets
of Allah as worthless and therefore paid no heed to it.