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
2.17. Even the creation of the mountains and their survival are linked with the morality of humans, a fact which is not known to the sciences.
2:63. And (remember, O Children of Israel) when We made a covenant with you and caused the mount to rise high up above you, (saying): Hold fast that which We have given you, and remember that which is therein, so that you may ward off (evil).
84: 1. When the heaven is split asunder
84: 2. And attentive to her Lord in fear,
84: 3. And when the earth is spread out
84: 4. And has cast out all that was in her, and is empty
84: 5. And attentive to her Lord in fear!
99: 1. When Earth is shaken with her (final) earthquake
99: 2. And Earth yields up her burdens,
99: 3. And man says: What ails her?
99: 4. That day she will relate her chronicles,