1. An Introduction to Creation, Destruction and Calamities
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1.1. What do the sciences say about natural calamities?
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1. 2. Whom God Does not Destroy
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1. 3. The Philosophy of Natural Calamities in Light of Science
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1. 4. The Causes of Poverty and Famine in Light of Economics
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1. 5. The Causes of Natural Calamities in Light of the Qur’an
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1. 6. Why We Cannot Learn to Be Wise Even after Losing a Lot
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2. The Theory
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3. Some Instances of Mass Destruction and their Causes
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2. The Theory
2. 6. Each subsystem of the universe has an entity and individual identity of its own. For this reason all together maintain overall unity, while each one maintains its own individuality too.
41:11. Then turned He to the heaven when it was smoke, and said to it and to the earth: Come both of you, willingly or unwillingly. They said: We come, obedient.
13:15. And to Allah falls prostrate whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, as do their shadows in the morning and the evening hours.
55:19. He has loosed the two seas. They meet.
55:20. There is a barrier between them. They encroach not (one upon the other).
13:15. And to Allah falls prostrate whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, as do their shadows in the morning and the evening hours. [This means that everything has its own ‘I’ or individuality.]