The Shortcoming in Our Tools of Perception:<\/b><\/p>\n
What would we know if we were granted some other sensory organ, besides those that are already within our body? Surely, we would discover many things around us that are hidden at this moment because we can not perceive them due to there being no specific sensory organ with which we would be able to detect and understand it?<\/p>\n
Is it not the case that amongst these tools and machines used for scientific, medical, and technical purposes, etc. there are those that show temperature, air pressure, quantities of density, etc. indicating to a great deficiency in our senses?! It is rationally possible for us to be given senses by means of which we could grasp that which these instruments pick up and show. Just imagine, how would it be if we were given the ability to sense metals behind barriers? When we passed by a lode of iron, we would sense it without seeing it just like the magnet detects it, or [we could sense] lodes of gold, silver, and diamonds, etc., perceiving them while they were inside of mountains, and in the various layers of the earth. If such was the case, would we not have a capability to perceive that is vaster than what we have at the moment?! Would we not be amongst a different creation due to these senses which we do not have?<\/p>\n
How great is our deficiency, in spite of being more perfect than others in creation!!<\/p>\n
The Limits of the Senses:<\/b><\/p>\n
As for our senses which are our sole means of information about what exists around us, they are access points with a short reach, limited in magnitude and property.<\/p>\n
Modern scientific discovery has revealed that space is filled with forms that we are incapable of witnessing through our sight because of a disharmony and incongruity between that things composition and the composition of our sight. Similarly, it is full of sounds which are above or below the frequency range of our hearing due to which we do not hear it at all. Likewise, this modern scientific research is capable of discovering specific instruments that can receive sounds and images from the atmosphere, [and] transmit them to us, after translating them into images and sounds compatible with the level of our hearing and sight.<\/p>\n
If we were to assert authoritatively, for example, that no sound, apparent or hidden, was present, at all, in some place, [because] we were incapable of picking it up, but then an instrument capable of receiving hidden sounds from that very place was brought to us, and was taken around in such a manner that it was picking up and transmitting those sounds to us, that would surely disprove our previous claim; and the evidence of this new sound which was detected in that place would be the greatest witness [against us]. It is obvious that the contents of this new discovery would announce the ignorance inherent in our previous decision; [It would also proclaim] the ignorance within those reckless statements that we stressed and were so sure of before reflecting deeply or possessing a piercing understanding of the true state of affairs and underlying factors.\u200b<\/p>\n
Due to the fact that our senses, as we explained, are limited in magnitude and property, it is not correct, rationally and factually, for us to decisively reject anything about the realities of the cosmos, no matter what its form was, merely because we hadn’t seen or heard it, nor could we acquire it by any of our senses, unless we establish a rational proof and clear evidence which sound logic accepts.<\/p>\n
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As for the claim that a thing does not exist because we can not perceive it, then that is something which the intellect completely refuses to accept. Why wouldn\u2019t it, when we know, of a certainty, from thousands of daily experiences, that our senses are limited in magnitude and property!!<\/p>\n
As far as magnitude is concerned, whenever a vast distance within the bounds of our perception is crossed the incapability of our senses grasping things becomes apparent.<\/p>\n
The sense of sight, for instance, is the sense with the greatest range; every time a visible object becomes distant from us, its size decreases in our vision, until it disappears completely because of the distance.<\/p>\n
Similar is the sense of hearing.<\/p>\n
As for the sense of touch, its preconditions are even more limiting since it needs physical contact.<\/p>\n
With respect to property, it is essential that the specific conditions of each sense within us be fulfilled so that we are able, by means of it, to grasp things presented to our senses.<\/p>\n
Thus, the sense of sight, for instance, needs light to see things; whenever there is no light and intense darkness descends sight is totally lost. Likewise whenever visible things decrease to the lowest levels of smallness, we are unable to see them except by means of microscopes magnifying them tens, thousands, or millions of times.<\/p>\n
And there are a great many things, in reality, which we strongly accept as truth without physically acquiring it by means of our senses, rather we accept them as truth due to a deduction.<\/p>\n
Example<\/strong>: While you are inside your room, you hear a knock at the door, so you deduce, without any hesitation, that someone knocked on the door without you seeing them or hearing their voice. This is because you know with certainty that the door does not knock on itself, so you say, \u201dThere must be someone who is knocking.\u201d<\/p>\n Here, we should turn our attention to a superstition which some of the small-minded amongst the atheist who behave like fools say, \u201cWe don\u2019t accept the existence of things which we can not perceive.\u201d It is like they assume that their senses are able to discover everything around them! But every day, science is discovering new things around us, and even inside of our bodies, which people for generations and centuries did not perceive at all during by gone times. How much do they share, because of their non-acceptance of these things (if they even rejected them), in this declaration of their misguided understanding, and extreme ignorance. [These people] certainly give proof against themselves that they are narrow minded ignoramuses, recklessly rejecting the realities of the cosmos whose evidences are established!!<\/p>\n The following is a curious story concerning this matter:<\/p>\n Through the brilliance of his natural disposition, a young child gave a stinging refutation, both mocking and convincing, to one of those fools amongst the atheists. The fool said, \u201cWe don\u2019t accept as truth the existence of anything until we see it, nor do we admit to anything until we observe it,\u201d and he began giving spurious examples of that, until it reached to the subject of the existence of All\u0101h, whereupon he said, \u201cWe didn\u2019t see the Creator with our own eyes, so He doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d The young child who was silently sitting in a corner of this foolish atheist\u2019s gathering stood up and said, \u201cTeacher, none of us have seen your intellect which you contemplate with, so you must not have any intellect.<\/strong>\u201d And the denier of the truth was dumbfounded; indeed, All\u0101h does not guide the wrongdoing folk.<\/p>\n \u00a0(Continue to Part 3<\/a>) (Back to Part 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Shortcoming in Our Tools of Perception: What would we know if we were granted some other sensory organ, besides those that are already within…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqidah","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}