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PREFACE

of these notions. Finally, within this logic of monotheistic nature, if
it is a miracle, it is not to be found in the whole, but is instead
represented by the whole itself: whole of the Universe and its laws,
a unified and organized whole, not the whole of miracles, of
timeless creations, of out of laws, out of rules, abnormal or
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paranormal events .

Let us note that the Quran mentions the general idea of regularities
characterizing the creation: "(…) Then you will not find for God’s
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Mode a change (…)" . We can point out, with the reference to this
idea, that the calculated and regulated nature of astronomical
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phenomena, for example, represents a Quranic subject . Laws and
constants, the mathematical dimension of the Universe and the
unitary traits of the world appear to the knowledgeable believer as
an expression of divine will, a manifestation of the intelligence, the
permanency, the measurement, the rule, offered to reason, to the
human spirit. In this regard, the observation of nature and the
intelligence of phenomena, the study of divine signs, the
comprehension of the order established by an omnipresent Creator,
are encouraged: " Certainly in the creation of the heavens and the
earth, and the alternation of night and day, there are signs for men
of understanding - Those who remember God, standing and sitting
and on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and
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the earth (…)" . In general, in numerous verses, and since the very
first revelead, the Quran insists on the importance of an awareness
of the Creator’s work, on the observation and the full exercise of
reason. The spiritual journey consequently defines itself as a

1 Quranic verses such as follows are put forward to support these ideas, in
accordance with the idea of a unified origin of plurality, whose current reality is
conceived as its development and expression, and with the idea of cosmic
expansion:
- "Do not those who denigrated see that certainly the heavens and the
earth were compact? Then We Dislocated them, and We Formed from
water every living thing (…)" (sura 21, verse 30),
- "And the sky, We Built it by hands, and certainly We Are assuredly
Amplifying" (sura 51, verse 47).
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Sura 35, verse 43.
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A verse such as the following furthers this idea: "The sun and the moon by
calculation" (sura 55, verse 5).
4 Sura 3, verses 190-191.

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