Reason #6: The “eye” is a proof of God?

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What’s so special about eyes? Here are some facts about a human one specifically:

  1. Your eyeball is specially protected by being in a socket and as a result only about 1/6th of the eye is exposed.
  2. It is said that eyebrows prevent sweat from going into the eyes and the lashes keep dirt away.
  3. They heal very quickly!
  4. We have over 1 million nerve fibers connecting an eye to the brain, and as a result of its complexity, a complete eye transplant has not been done yet.
  5. An iris has 256 unique characteristics compared to a fingerprint’s 40!
  6. It takes the brain 1/10th of a second to process vision!
  7. We can see about 10 million different colors.
  8. It’s arguably the most complex organ after the brain.1

Thus, anyone can appreciate the science behind it and see how advanced eyes are. However, when you ask, “WHY do we have them?”, what answer can really be given? From an evolutionary or atheistic point of view, there frankly CAN’T be a good one.

If you think from an evolutionary point of view, and this isn’t to dismiss all aspects of evolution, the eyeball is not “necessary.” We don’t need it to survive. Yes, there’s no doubt that the eye is extremely valuable! It’s one of the most precious organs we have. It’s the reason we visualize our surroundings and consequently can avoid danger, but it is not a direct reason for survival. When you think about the brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, and the mouth, if we don’t have one of them, we are gone! But, we can live without eyes. That is why evolutionarily one has to answer how we got them.

Now if an atheist tries to answer, he or she may say nature caused them to exist or, by chance, some of the early living things on Earth had primitive eyes. Then, through millions and millions of years of natural selection, mother nature, and survival of the fittest, nature enabled the eyes to evolve and possibly those with more advanced eyes survived.But that begs the question – doesn’t it sound like one is saying “mother nature” or “natural selection” has a conscience? How can nature direct anything to that extent? How did it “allow” creatures to have eyes, even though we don’t need them, and then become an organ so prevalent in animals?

  1. A lot of the scientific facts are from: https://discoveryeye.org/20-facts-about-the-amazing-eye.

Reason #5: Dr. Al-Azami, the Hindu who became a Muslim scholar

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His full name is Muhammad Diya Al-Rahman Al-Azami and he was a man with a truly incredible and unique story. He was born around 1943 to a Brahman Hindu family in India. He got curious about Islam, learned about it, and ended up converting at a young age.

He kept learning about the religion until he ended up going to Saudi Arabia, a hub for Islamic knowledge! There he studied at Islamic University of Madinah and Umm al-Qura University. He then became the Dean of the College of Hadith at the University of Madinah, which was perhaps the most famous Islamic university in the world! From where to where!

To make matters more interesting, he retired early about the year 2000 to compile all of the authentic Hadiths (documented sayings and actions of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)) into one work. For those who know Sahih Al-Bukhari, Dr. Al-Azami wanted to apply the same standards of Imam Al-Bukhari to the hundreds of thousands of Hadiths available in the world. In 2019, he ended up completing it! It is called “al-Jāmi al-Kāmil fī al-Ḥadīth al-Ṣaḥīh al-Shāmil” (The Comprehensive Complete Compendium of Sahih Hadith) and it has over 15,000 hadiths! A year later, he passed away.

As Dr. Yasir Qadhi, an American Muslim scholar, explained all this in his Facebook page, “It was as if Allah wanted him – a child born to a Brahman family – to rise up to a task that no one had ever done, and gave him life until he finished this monumental project.”

And what makes all this more amazing is that Dr. Al-Azami passed away on THE HOLIEST DAY of the Islamic year and that is the Day of Arafah.

After reading all this, can we look at his life and just say, “Sure, it’s amazing” without pondering upon it? We should ask ourselves – what are the chances all of this happened to one person? Every single fact we went through – from a kid converting to becoming the dean of a famous university to compiling all those Hadiths to passing away on the holiest day out of all days – how does all that just happen, unless Something willed them to happen?