The Story of a Black box

Today, when I woke up, I saw a black box, placed in my room. There were lights of different color emitting from the box. Having something strange in the room, I was curious about it. A lot of questions started to prompt in my head. What is this? How does it emitting light? What is the box made of? How does it work? To satisfy my curiosity, I started working with the box. After a little “research” I found that the box is made of wood. With a little jiggling, I found that there is something inside the box which might be emitting the light. I became curious about what is inside the box and somehow managed to find the nuts and bolts of the box. I opened it, and found out that there is a light bulb inside which is running on a battery. The light bulb is covered with a paper which has several colors and that’s why the box is emitting colorful lights. This was enough for me to understand the box and the mystery of the light emitting from the black box. In other words, I had understood the ‘what’ of the box. But this was not good enough, i needed answer for the ‘why’ part as well. 

I am a human being with the faculty of reasoning and the desire to know the purpose of things. Hence my curiosity provoked me to search for some unanswered questions of why. Why this box is in my room? Who placed it in my room? What is the purpose of this black box? What does it have to do with me? I tried observing the box more closely. Of course I could have guessed some answers of these questions from careful observation of the box and its functionality. However, i needed affirmation and that too from the one who put that box in my room. 

Similar is the story of Religion. My atheist friends do not understand that science has actually answered only the ‘what’ part of this universe. Newton, Darwin, Laplace and Einstein, all have only answered the ‘what’ part of this universe. They have elaborated on the mechanism of this universe. They have elaborated on questions like how did it start? How does it work? What is the mechanism inside and outside the world?  However they and in other words, Science, is not in a position, as yet, to answer the ‘why’ part of the universe. Science cannot answer that why this universe exist? At the same time, it has understood human “mechanics” including the physiology and psychology of human beings, but it cannot answer why these human beings exist in this universe, and what is their purpose in this universe? To answer these questions, science has to ask someone else. For science, that someone is religion. According to Maulana Waheed , “Science answers “what is that exists” whereas the religion answers “why does it exist” “.

History has witnessed that only religion has given the most scientific answers and explanation of these natural questions emerging in human mind. As Cecil Boyce says “Nature does not explain, she is herself in need of an explanation”. My atheist friends should sincerely try to find the answers of this ‘why’ as well. And they should put it in breaking news if they find the answers from Science.

And oh, by the way, that story of black box was just an analogy, so don’t worry about its climax.


Wherever you are, be a source of comfort and joy for the fellow creatures. 

Peace be upon you all