I once heard dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari saying: “technology changes cultural mentality, which alters people’s psychological disposition, which affects the metaphysical perception of reality and, ultimately, religion”. I thought: How can something so tangible mutate our spiritual inner self so thoroughly?

Technology shapes the way we perceive the world around us, even the passing of time, until we start acting according to these perceptions, changing our values system and, eventually, society itself.

Technological advancement created a new complex world: in fact, we live in a world dominated by complexity; most of us think it’s an intrinsic characteristic of everything around us. We beware of things that appear too simple. That’s perhaps one of the reasons why so many people don’t believe in God. They think proving His existence should be a complicated philosophical process, but I disagree. Believing in Allah is in fact easy.

This reminded me of “The triplets’ story”: three brothers (the doubtful, the atheist, and the believer), still inside their mom’s womb, discussing about ‘life after birth’: if we could time-travel, would we ever realize that, once born, we could eat with our hands, or even walk with our own feet? Or that we could actually see our mom, and a new world outside ours? Yet, here we are, experiencing a ‘life after birth’. Allah constantly gives us proofs about this life and the next, with beautiful analogies.

Often, we sense we cannot prove everything rationally, or that the complex appearance of something prevents us to reach the Truth; but Allah honored us with something called intuition: let’s use it more.