It is here that we clearly remind all humanity, in general, and those attending the militant¹ institute, in particular, of the thanksgiving for best countenance that Almighty God has bestowed upon us the position of vicegerency, nobility, intelligence and control. Making our best efforts, we unremittingly acquiesce to God's commands and endeavor to serve God's creatures for the purpose of extending justice, worshipping in His Oneness and spreading all this to others. This is called the theory and practice of thanksgiving.

But let us leave this general conception for a while and focus on what Almighty God says:

Translation: "If you are grateful, I will add more (favors) unto you. But if ye show ingratitude, truly My punishment is severe indeed." (14:7Q)

Indeed, an abundance of inward and outward favors will be accessible to us once we see the worthless position that we were in originally and initially, and do thanksgiving for those favors that have been given to us. As they say, "You can appreciate good health when you remember all the problems one by one."

On that basis, I would like, in the series of topics concerning the authenticity here implied, to turn respected readers' attention to some of the commonplace favors and beneficence that Exalted Almighty has granted mankind. This topic is handled in such a way that you yourself might perceive with human and realistic logic the thanksgiving owed as a result of such bounty and beneficence. And on the other hand, also come to understand that when some narrow-minded materialists say that Almighty God does not exist, they mean that this system of the universe has come into existence spontaneously, without Regulator and Creator.

Of course, an examination of a number of well-ordered objects and the regulated organizations, each of which itself signifies His Self-Subsisting and Omniscient Power, the Generous and Wise, conveys to us that it is not by coincidence, but by proper and careful measurement they were created and arranged. This order is not only evident in our firmament, but beyond as well. Each unit of this order is itself a distinguished manifestation of the manifestations of the Perfect Power of His Wise and Beneficent Being.

It is observed that they each are distinguished with particular forms, shapes and secrets. Observing their distinct qualities is demonstrative of the Performances of Self-existent, the Glorious Being. Yet when it comes to articulating the Greatness, Magnificence and Perfection of Exalted Him we have not even the words representative of real attributes and illustrative of true meaning. We use some words, like Perfection, Glory, Greatness and Magnificence; along with other slightly different words; but what else? Is it possible, through these restricted words, to express the manifestation of Greatness and Performances of the Almighty Magnificent Being? No, never!

NO, NEVER!

Nevertheless, aside the fact that our brain does not have, the substantial capability for perceiving and talent for understanding the intelligence behind the secrets and mysteries of created things, but as soon as people see something and understand a little bit, they have lost themselves. Not known the Maker, they have jumped on to denying the Existence of the Almighty. Although claiming to possess knowledge, most of them have fallen into the pits of despair, and due to utmost narrow-mindedness and limited vision, denied the Existence of the Creator and Organizer of this entire universe.

Seeing all this stupendous Order and Glory, in which we have not perceived yet even one thousandth of our firmament or our insignificant globe, with so little knowledge of physics and chemistry, surprisingly, they think themselves somehow possessing genius. Some, in practice, unconsciously portray themselves as lords over these veiled secrets and make themselves the leaders of the deviators. And, with the worthless knowledge they acquired, they assume they understand everything, or they could know, and find His Great Glorious Being just as soon as learning to read and write. This is an error.

Sure! A relationship with the Almighty is not impossible. We must realize that one's approach to the Presence of Almighty Being, who is absolutely unseen, is possible by means of fortification of spiritual power via one's complete faith in His Self-reliant Being.

Notice that the soul is intangible, however its living signs and activities in the body are apparent until death. Yet the soul can bring us toward our goal of approaching and finding the Almighty.

The seekers of this approach, instead of fortifying spiritual power, have grown by fortifying egotistical powers and that through cruel and unlawful means. They want to reach Proximity with Him, the Self-reliant Being, by means of dishonor, but how?

Hence, instead of meeting reality, they are confronted with aberration and disappointment. The reasons for all these failures and the tendency of some philosophers to go astray are indispensably explained, with Glorious God's assistance, in a separate epistle "Why do philosophers go astray before reaching guidance."

Thus, on account of satanic temptations, they have produced some written and verbal literature, even films that reflect their atheistic views. They have inadvertently driven a portion of the people to the dungeons of misery and deviation with completely meaningless and unfounded words.

Consequently instead of seeking the comfort of mankind, in fact they have focused on producing deadly mass-murder atomic bombs, the arms race, and finally destroying all living creatures and buildings on earth. They have driven mankind, along with all living creatures, to the brink of death.

Now, it is the duty of enlightened Muslims that, once they perceive the truth, they are among the students of the Militant Institute of Monotheism, the Oneness of Almighty God. There they should provide others with the necessary contentment of logical reason and open their minds to the Light of Islam and faith, and to pull humanity, with the help of Almighty God, out of this wilderness of insanity.

Thus, they must primarily get a good understanding, so they may be able explain to others. We have, with His special assistance and cooperation of our sound companions, organized the dictation of these topics in simple form of epistles in the School of Quran and its Secrets, as far as Almighty God has gracefully guided us with His Kindness and Generosity. Hopefully if any more of these matters are reflected upon by the faithful majesties, they should write them down and place them in the service of all Muslims and mankind.

I would not like to open the discussion with their senseless matters because this will delay explaining the spirit of the matter, which we intend to do. Simply, we are drawing the attention of the broad-minded to the following points. You, yourself, will freely judge what you see, studying it accurately and making your judgement of whether these brothers and sisters have committed an error. How, with such irrational and illogical morality, they have deprived themselves from finding out about the truth pertaining to the Permanent and Everlasting World, as well as both worlds' real abode-of-favors, that is Paradise, following the human and jinni devils?

Why don't you ponder! The God Who created man from non-existence, could He not recreate him anew? And that Being Who brought forth all these Favors from the earth or soil, could He not draw thousands times better pleasures from a soil of better quality? Or the Self-subsisting, Who creates many pleasant seasons of spring and summer, could He not keep them for all time? Likewise, the Great Praiseworthy who grants man twenty to thirty years of youth, could He not everlastingly maintain it?

The answer to all these queries is affirmative, the believers are duty-bound in suggesting and proving them.

If Glorious God had not properly organized this machine of filtration of food and its adaptation to the blood in our bodies, and that out of a wide range of fatty, sugary and protein foodstuff-and if He had not caused this caravan carrying many constituents called blood-how could the body's wasted cells be restored?

Consider such a waste of molecules, as would be the case with limbs were we presumably to inject somehow into them, ourselves, the necessary elements. Could we have fulfilled this task as well as caused by the circulation of blood carrying its stupendous loads, which can do it for every part of the body very skillfully by the command from Almighty God? No, never!

If Almighty God had not automatically processed the filtration and separation of the residual liquid from the stomach using the kidney and this job had depended somehow on us, what would have happened? Think about it!

If the food in our stomachs had to be moved by us in a similar manner to the way the stomach now does by providing automatically the necessary pressure for four hours-expansion and contraction, what trouble it all would have been to us! Ponder!

If Glorious God had prepared man's stomach for digestion of only soft things like corn bread, or some other simple substances and man could not digest any of God's other favors to him, how could we ever now utilize all the countless favors?

If God Almighty had not specially prepared man for the air in his intestine, the gaseous substances produced after the ingestion of different foodstuff and meals, in spite of the fact that the main attribute of gasses, especially when heated up, is to rise. Were these smelly gases from the intestine, in accordance with this attribute, to go upward and exit from the mouth, what would be our present situation? Think about it! Contrary to its chemical property, it goes down to exit.

If both ends, front and back, were not automatically opened and closed, what would have been our situation? I should be more blunt and say that each person would have required a bag or a box on each side in which to collect the waste material and discharge somewhere at the convenient times.

Has this order been organized without an Organizer? No, never!

What kind of a place would we have had to set at home? Plainly speaking, we would have required particular seats beneath which to place containers. While sitting and talking, this waste material from both front and back would drop in these containers little by little. What a situation then would our home and we have been? Think about it!

If the feces and urine, when necessary, were not automatically relieved through their proper outlets, and it were necessary that someone press our stomach so the waste material could come out, what would have been our situation under that circumstance? Or, if taking it out manually or by some other means, what would have been our lot? Pay heed!

If Almighty God had caused Man to constipate one or several times a week, month or year, If Almighty God had caused man to be constipated, or even have his urine flow stultified one or several days a week, several weeks a month, or even a few months a year, what would our situation have been and what would we have done? That is to say, the front and back outlets were blocked what difficulties we would have confronted?

If Almighty God had given man a long tail and that out of a bone piece, such that it would have been impossible to bend what would have happened then? How could we fit it in our trousers and how could we sit on it? But where is the superiority of man over the creatures possessing that figure, if it were not for the Fervors and Grace bestowed upon us by the Almighty.

If Glorious God had given man such big fat as sheep, ponder what would have been our situation? Ponder, after all, whether the creation of these forms is impossible? No, never.

Based on what merit were we honored with,

Translation: We have indeed created Man in the best of molds."(95:4 Qur'an) We were made worthy of this wealth and created with grace!

If Glorious God had not equipped the bones' equilibrium and the strength in proportion with the weight associated? That is to say that if the inferior part of the foot, the anklebone, were not stronger and more powerful than the rest, and thus incapable of supporting a weight of 70 to 105kg, how quickly would bone tissue be pulverized and man prevented from walking?

What if Glorious God had not created the knee bones, waist, and the rest with the necessary hierarchical strength and in conformity with the requirements of equilibrium; in such a case, bones would be pulverized every day, week, or at least once a month? What difficulty were we to be confronted with such a problem! Is the power of equilibrium in the joints supporting the body there by chance and without measurement? No, never!

Ponder profoundly about how such order in our bodies, and in those of all creatures, even the atomic particles, could have or would come into existence without the Prudent, Great Creator? No, it could never. The problem of not seeing God would not be cured through misconception, but only will get worse.

If Glorious God had not given to human beings the orderly, correctly numbered, and good fingers we have, but something similar to what animals have-perhaps hoofs, what would our situation have then been? Ponder!

If Almighty God had processed the lengthening of our bones through us pulling them at appropriate times; how could we ever fulfill this task? If our arms and legs were sometimes to stretch due to our manual intervention or from their own natural state, so that we would not be able to bring them back to their normal position? What would we have done under such circumstances? What difficulty we would have to face!

If there were no place inside the bones for marrow, or other necessary 'fatty' substances, how long would the bones be able to supply it? It would only be for a short while, and quantitatively very little. Ponder! Is the supplying of oil in the joints an accident, or a function without wisdom? No, never!

If we had to somewhat provide the oil inside the bones, with all the forgetfulness of mankind; first how and laboriously we would be fulfilling this task, secondly what complications we would meet with had we ever forgotten our task!

If there were no joints in our bodies, indeed, we could not bend back and forth as required. What would we have become and what could we have done?

If Almighty God had created mankind all with the same face and shape, what disorder there would have been in terms of social life! Basically, there would have been no distinctions amongst friends and strangers.

If Exalted God had not bestowed us sleep in order to restore expended energy from our bodies, do you know how quickly our bodies would become exhausted and we would be destroyed?

If Glorious God had not, with special wisdom, kept body temperature moderate and at a necessary heat level, with oxygen from the air and calories from a variety of foods, what tools would we have used to supply this temperature? That is to say, could we ourselves ever do that which the body itself is automatically, accurately undertaking with its indispensable facilities? No, never!

If you are informed, biologists have calculated that it would take approximately 35 kilograms of coal daily in order to secure the body temperature each person now normally has, were he or she to be provided with artificial heat, but how would we provide or use this in timely manner?

If Great God had paralyzed the members of the body once in more or less than twenty four hours, a week, or a month, how would man have prayed more often for recovery and worshipped in thanksgiving, always making a special effort in his appeals to show up his weaknesses?

If Glorious God had produced amongst humans a body paralysis for a week or a month, and if man had to endure this disease for the entire length, what would have been man's situation? Ponder, Almighty God would not have given motion to his limbs had he not done some exhausting worshipping. Who, in this case, would be able to oppose subservience to Him and transgress others? Indeed, all would comply, surrender absolutely and be enthusiastic to worshipping; leading a totally peaceful co-existence and very comfortable life.

If Almighty God had made domestic animals such as the horse, cow, donkey, sheep, goat, etc., domesticated for one generation and then wild again in the next, because the nature of animals requires wilderness, of what use would they have been then? As soon as we let loose the lion, wolf, fox, for example, even after ten generations domesticated, they become as wild as they once were.

If Almighty God did not make children and adults, men and women seem alike to domesticated animals, that is, they would not obey a weak person unless a strong and big person was there, how again would we utilize these animals and take the necessary advantage of the work they can do? The answer is that we could not.

If Glorious God had crated all animals with the same shape, figure and visage, then who could ever own an animal since they would all look alike and be therefore indistinguishable? Whereas, there are differences, not just in their color but on their faces and even in their voices, so that a person knows his own animals through special marks or signs.

Ponder by considering the opposite side of each of the above mentioned queries. It will become clear that, should all these situation have occurred, as the materialist says, based on spontaneity and by accident in this world, humanity would be beset by problems hundreds of times worse than the above mentioned. For processes based on spontaneity have never taken and could never take place with such order as visible in every created being.

All these truths are clearly proving the existence of His Self-Existence, Wise and Omniscient Being, and that indeed it has taken place under this Great, Almighty Being's Control.

All this clearly proves His Self-Existence, Wisdom, and Omniscience, and that indeed it has happened under this Great, Almighty Being's Control.

Foot Notes:

1 militant = the struggle against the Ego and Satan