The Wonder of Questions: Series 1: Part 2

InsyaAllah, we continue with the second part now:

One question: WHY would Allah sent us Islam?

Because our mind have limitation, that's why.

I was doing neuroscience last semester and I was so fascinated by human brain. It only weighs around 1.2 to 1.5 kg, but it’s called the 'higher centre' of our body system. It governs every system in our body: our heartbeat and circulation of blood (cardiovascular), our inspiration and exhalation (respiratory), our digestion (gastrointestinal), our reproduction, temperature and hormones (reproductive and homeostasis), the excretion of waste product from our body and metabolism (renal), and how our muscles work and our mobility (musculoskeletal). And all the systems are controlled by nervous system and mediators (neurotransmitter, hormones etc) that subconsciously in return, controlled by the brain. [In a way, Islam is like that. Allah is the higher centre, alQuran and Sunnah are the nerves and mediators and the components of our lives are the different systems we have on our body]

And I’m doing psychology at the moment, and I keep on being amazed at how mysteriously our mind works, and how there are so much more that human don’t know and yet to be discovered. Some things are just left unexplained because they cannot be explained by human minds.

Now, this is the role of Islam: to answer all the questions that human cannot think simply by using their minds because it’s our fitrah, which is Allah had limited out mind to certain limit only. Beyond that is beyond our territories.

And that’s the reason why I keep on reminding myself that if something bad came up in my life, it’s not an excuse to throw fits, show my temper and tantrums, because I don’t know what’s good will it bring for me; because my mind have limitation and because He knows the best.

In the book, there are 3 questions that human will keep on searching and looking for the answer. And yet, human without the right guidance will not be able to answer them:

Where did we come from?
Why do we exist?
Where are we going later/soon?

to be continued...

Author's notes: Think about the questions and think about how human (without Islamic knowledge) think and how would a person with akidah answer? How would ISLAM answer?