Allah Is Known Through Reason

By Harun Yahya

To see the fact of Creation, one first of all needs wisdom.

This book is a summons to wisdom.

Preface
There is an important reason why this book is entitled "Allah is Known
Through Reason". The majority of people say that they know Allah and
believe in Him. In truth, however, they do not know and measure Allah with
His true measure. For this, one needs to have "reason and wisdom."
The point that needs to be recalled here is that when it is said that one
needs "wisdom" in order to grasp Allah and know Him with His true
measure, this does not mean "intelligence". Wisdom and intelligence are
two entirely different concepts. Intelligence is the brain capacity one
possesses biologically. Intelligence neither increases, nor decreases.
Wisdom, however, is a trait peculiar to believers alone. It is given as a
great favour by Allah to believers who have taqwa (fear of Allah). Wisdom
is a standard to judge between right and wrong, which Allah gives to His
true servants. One's ability to judge, that is, his wisdom, increases in direct
proportion to his taqwa.
The most distinct characteristics of a wise person are his fear of Allah, his
listening to his conscience, his assessment of every event he experiences
in line with the Qur'an and his seeking Allah's good pleasure at all times.
Even if someone is the most intelligent, wise and knowledgeable person in
the world, he will still be "unwise" if he lacks these characteristics, and
lacking the faculty of comprehension, he will be unable to grasp many
facts.
We can clarify the difference between intelligence and wisdom with an
example: A scientist may have made lengthy and very detailed research
on the body's nervous system. He may be the most knowledgeable person
in the world on the extraordinary nerve transmissions taking place in the
body. If he lacks wisdom, however, he will go no further than being
someone who possesses a lot of information on the processes taking
place between nerve cells. In other words, he will not be able to grasp the
important reality lying behind this information. Someone with wisdom,
however, seeing the miraculous events taking place in the nervous system
and the perfect mechanisms in its details, understands that such a
flawless structure must have a Creator, a designer with supreme wisdom.
He says: "The power who has created the nervous system in such a
flawless way must certainly be the creator of all other living things. And He
has power to create the abode of the hereafter after death."
The main thrust of this book is to allow the reader to witness the existence
of Allah with his wisdom. Some people do not believe in the existence of
Allah, and others say that they do believe in His existence, yet not with
their wisdom and conscience, but because they were taught to do so. Yet
because they do not think and use their wisdom, they do not fulfill the
requirements that believing in Allah with certainty demands. Believers with
wisdom, however, see the details of Allah's existence and creation with
their mind and reason, and fear Allah, Who has eternal might.
After referring to the signs of creation in the Qur'an, Allah states that these
signs are only for those who are wise:
And among His Signs, He shows you the lightning, by way both of
fear and of hope, and He sends down rain from the sky and with it
gives life to the earth after it is dead: verily in that are Signs for those
who are wise. (Surat ar-Rum: 24)