Srinagar, Jan. 6 -- One night, just before sleep, my five year old daughter looked at me with innocent seriousness and said that she understood my answers, yet two questions were still circling in her mind. She asked how God came into existence and how, from nothing, God created the universe and us. In that moment, her simple voice carried the weight of the oldest questions known to humanity. I stood briefly speechless, not because the questions were childish, but because they were profoundly mature.

Science tells us the universe had a beginning and that even emptiness is rich with hidden energy, while Islam teaches that Allah is eternal, beyond beginning and end, the very source of existence. The God Particle helps us understand how mat...