Since the dominant paradigms of our time are scientific, rationalist, technology based ones, it is natural for us to seek out the how of any process, to seek to learn the technology behind it, the mechanics which govern it. But with metaphysical realities we can only attempt to align the mechanisms and observable processes glimpsed by science with the symbols and pointers to deeper realities spoken of in the Qur’an (and by the Prophets and awliya).
The observable mechanisms of this world may be traces and signs, indicators of unseen processes and realities which are not accessible in their entirety through material sciences, although a suggestion, a scintilla, a shadow of them is visible through these sciences. The deeper we peer into the fundamental nature of physical reality the more mystery we encounter so that even as we achieve wonders through the manipulation of new-found processes, so also does the mechanistic, easily dissectible view of the universe we once chased after recede into further complexity and fuzziness at our approach. Whether in the realm of the material or the metaphysical, the unseen (ghayb) component of reality is a resource that will never be in short supply.
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