When The Words of God Echoe through the World

Sometimes it is hard to ignore the striking similarities between the words of a leading figure that we come across in life and the words of God in Quran.   Compare the following two cases and make your own judgment. 

One thing these echoes could remind us of, is the fact that there is someone creating these voices.  They may work as another call to the truth.  It will, however, be our choice as always,whether to believe in these coincidences as a message of God or to deny them one after another as they show up in the course of our life.

It is important to note that our fate for this life and for the one after starts to shape up with making our daily choices; either to confirm what resonates with us as God's sign especially tailored for us (others may not relate to it) or to reject them as just work of nature with no special purpose behind.

I believe if we perceive some events in our life (after examining by reason ) as God's work in our individual life circumstances then we may engage in a life changing conversation with God. Conversely, if we choose to reduce it as purely accidental or .... then it becomes harder and harder for us to realize the truth which is seeing God running the world in every details.

The path of denial would inevitably end up with learning it the hard way which is essentially going through undeniable physical pain that will wake us up and force us embrace the truth.  This is basically the law of nature itself.  For example, if we ignore the symptoms of our health problems, we may end up in such a painful situation that we will have to rush to an emergency room to find out the cause and seek treatment.

We don't have to go through the unbearable bodily pains in order to keep up with a good health. By the same analogy, we don’t have to walk down the path of denial which will lead us to the wrong place in the afterlife, although we are free to choose.

بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيم

One:

39:42

اللَّهُ يَتَوَفَّى الْأَنفُسَ حِينَ مَوْتِهَا وَالَّتِي لَمْ تَمُتْ فِي مَنَامِهَا ۖ فَيُمْسِكُ الَّتِي قَضَىٰ

عَلَيْهَا الْمَوْتَ وَيُرْسِلُ الْأُخْرَىٰ إِلَىٰ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ .

"Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that do not die [He takes] during their sleep. Then He keeps those for which He has decreed death and releases the others for a specified term. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought."

Now listen to Nicholas Humphrey, an English Psychologist in the University of Cambridge as he talks about secrets of sleep. This is part of an article by Robert Lawrence Kuhn on LiveScience.com titled "Why Sleep?, Why Dreams?",  Robert is the host of "Closer to the Truth" TV series, whose quest to find the truth seems genuine to me.  

Humphrey, in his first minute of talk says: 

"Sleep is a sort of little death, and what this 'death' tells us is that we survive it: we go to sleep — our consciousness is obliterated, we are obliterated — but, sure thing, next day, we recreate ourselves. And this is such a regular occurrence that, of course, we just take it for granted, but it is a kind of miracle — we lose consciousness and then out of nothing it all comes back again."

"It's like a kind of Big Bang. The universe created out of nothing. We repeat that everyday when we wake up."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RI7whj5m0

On YouTube: Nicholas Humphrey - Secretes of Sleep

Two:

15:14-15

وَلَوْ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَابًا مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ فَظَلُّوا فِيهِ يَعْرُجُونَ - 15:14

"And [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend,"

لَقَالُوا إِنَّمَا سُكِّرَتْ أَبْصَارُنَا بَلْ نَحْنُ قَوْمٌ مَّسْحُورُونَ - 15:15

"They would say, "Our eyes have only been dazzled. Rather, we are a people affected by magic."

Similarly, in the last minute of the this video, Dr. William Lane Craig, an American analytic philosopher and Christian apologist, responds to an atheist who asks why God does not show up in  the sky and confirms his existence to us so we can see and believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnRQ3P3Bwo
On YouTube: Dr William Lane Craig Vs Biased atheist Dogma (Presuppositional Apologetics)

While there is a lot we can learn from Dr. Craig's arguments against atheists, I find his comments about Quran and Islam  inaccurate and clearly biased.