A few years ago, I was browsing through an introductory book about General/Special Relativity and found myself praising the author for explaining rather complex topics in simple terms for idiots like myself. I skimmed through a few chapters and didn’t really pick up the book again. I did, however, found myself thinking about reference frames and speed of light in the coming days, seeing how it made sense and helped me understand the universe around me a bit better.

Being a Muslim back then, I did occasionally come across the verses from the Quran. On one occasion I came across a verse that mentioned something about God being the all-knowing and it sent my mind on a tangent.

I started to think about human experts in their respective fields and how they try to cram a lot of knowledge and ideas into their books to help the audience understand things better. I also noticed that they don’t spend a lot of time talking about themselves and their own awesomeness, they convey it through the content, ideas and explanations. There are good and bad engineering/science books but in most cases if you are a newbie, you end up coming across something new that would give you the tools to understand the world around you better.

Given that God of the “Holy” books like Quran and Bible declares himself as the ultimate expert/scientist/engineer, I started to look at these books from that very specific perspective. Is this book written by a good engineer or is this written by someone pretending to be what they are not?

Another interesting aspect about the Quran is the fact that God declared it to be the final word, the last book and Muhammad being the last messenger. So I started to think …

If I knew and created everything and I was sending out the FINAL manual/book (that is eternally valid and helpful) for an entire species that I love, what kind of book would it be?