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Chapter 5

The Utmost of Insight throughout Wisdom

It is an obvious and undeniable truth that this entire hidden and open universe, and commonplace things around us, are the outcome of the Power of the Almighty's Hand, the Architect of the Earth and Time and all the galaxies and Periods, Exalted be He. In reality He has created an exhibition out of a collection of things and a variety of tools. To demonstrate His performances, He Almighty has displayed all these colors and things on basis of wisdom and secrets.

Finally, whatever is here on earth is all for man, and man is created to observe and to study the Performances of His Highness, Compassionate, and Beneficent.

The ultimate objective of worship in all its forms, beside the observation of the above-mentioned qualities and the light acquired therefrom, is the turning point in this process in the acquisition of Insight into the Indisputable Almighty Artificer.

This wealth can best be acquired by studying the secrets of this exhibition (universe) and by perceiving the Magnificence and the Perfection of the Almighty therefrom. It is the servant's only tool for relating to and gaining Insight into the Almighty God.

It is thus that most interpreters of the Quran have understood this auspicious verse:

Translation: I have created Jinns and Men that they may Worship Me (to acquire Insight into Me)." (51:56 Quran)

Verily! They went rightly and correctly. Truly this is it.

It is therefore through an abundant variety of re-producing machines that the Almighty has created our firmament and others, of which we see only a very small portion. In quantitative terms at least, variety reaches the order of millions. In terms of quantity, quality, and wisdom that may lie there are again numerous and fundamental differences. We have grouped them, up to the position of humanity and Islam, into seven general categories in the book "World from the Telescope of the Quran." After publishing, the book was put to public's access, a summary is presented here -

First category: Inanimate objects like firmaments and planets. Even somehow plants, vegetables and stones may also be included in this series.

Second category: Living creatures from the microbe to the elephant, and from mosquito to the ostrich, all on land, sea, air, or in the earth are included in this series.

Third category: Mankind, whether believer or unbeliever, possessing various religions and customs, such as atheism or polytheism, etc.

Fourth category: Monotheists, especially Muslims or those adhering to the "militant" ("militant," the struggle against the Ego) school.

Fifth category: Common religious scholars (Ulema).

Sixth category: The faithful, monotheistic, active religious scholars.

Seventh category: Faithful active ones and devout monotheists.

Translation: "Beware that sincere devotion is reserved for God Alone" (39:3 Quran)

All these categories have exclusive characteristics, not only different in terms of values and ethics, but also outwardly fundamental differences arise. In bodily terms and manner of creation, they are also differently organized and categorized.

Considering the first category of the above-mentioned created beings as a pre-elementary school, the second elementary, the third secondary, and the fourth university, we conclude that mankind is generally created through His grace and favor in the secondary school.

Mankind ought to have been in total submission to the Creator of this entire universe and the Bestower of open and hidden bestowments in thanksgiving for all control granted to us.

Secondly, the students at the militant school, namely the followers of the generous Quran, are duty-bound to collect a variety of arguments for the Oneness of Almighty Self-existent based on the 2,500 evidences of explicit verses of the Holy Quran. That is to well understand His Oneness and with other scientific topics and refined logic, to add reasons proving the Existence of Unique God. They should have, theoretically and practically, pulled humanity to a world of sincerity and unity. Indeed, there would never have been an opportunity for today's insanity to progress.

Now it is my duty and your own, O faithful youth, to be determined to eradicate misery, with the help of the Almighty God, and to guide the Muslims and all humanity to the right and righteous path.

If God Almighty through His Omnipotence had not given to the weak body of seeds, such as wheat, oatmeal and the like, the efficient energy to find their ways up from underneath the earth and even hard stones after cultivation. What if we human beings had to assume this function ourselves? After a few days of cultivation, we would have to soften the earth and prepare it for the stem growing out of the grain. How difficult this would be and how great the waste of grains? Yet who would ever be able to fulfill this task? Indeed, no one!

If Almighty God had not placed at man's disposal, the materials produced through the cultivation of cotton, or the wool of sheep and goats, out of what would the costumes and dress of most modern peoples have been shaped? Sure! It would either be the skin of animals or we would have remained naked like the rest of wild or domestic animals.

What if Almighty God had not planned the ripening of fruits through sunlight and favorite air as well as the currently ordered fashion, and He had assigned unto us their ripening in the branches through artificial temperature? Who would then be able to fulfill it and in what exhaustive and frustrating manner? Pay deep attention!

Pay deep attention! Can these fruits of perfect taste, varied colors and distinct characteristics ever be the scope of some "wisdom" of inanimate nature or coincident creation? The answer is negative.

If Almighty God had not produced variety of fruit-bearing and fruitless trees out of earth, what resources would have so simply provided and sufficed our needs for building high-rises, furniture, doors, or other wooden tools and necessities? Yet it would not be outlandish to ponder that wood is a condensed form of the earth's material fashioned by Almighty's Hand. But have you not observed that termites that eat the wood from one end? And at the other end, what is left-pure earth.

If Almighty God had allowed plants to grow only through our pulling them, not in the automated and indispensable manner that they are observed today, man would indeed have to pull on each plant, on necessary occasions, according to his estimation or experience, to let them grow. How difficult a task this would have been! And would we have succeeded?

If Almighty God had not organized in an automated fashion, the trees to absorb water from the earth by means of their capillary and roots? The water absorbed thus mixes well with necessary acidic and basic elements. Extraordinarily, these are taken upwards to the branches, sub-branches and leaves. Based on crucial perception and organization, they are well, automatically distributed to each part of the plant (its branches, sub-branches, leaves, fruits, flowers and other products of the tree) in correct proportion. Was it left for us to push water, containing nutrients, to the trunk, branches and leaves of the tree, what a situation would it have been and how would we have accomplished this task?

If Almighty God had not automatically maintained the trees fresh and green, we had to manually pour water on trunk and each branch to keep it fresh? Ponder, what an exhaustive task it would have been and how would we ever fulfil it?

What if Almighty God had made it our duty to shape the edges and various forms of flowers, leaves, etc., for the purpose of growth and beauty? Who would have ever been able to fashion the leaf with all its beauty and what extents would the hardship have reached!

If Almighty God had left it for us to protect, pay attention or, in whatever ways, to look after blossoms as each one appeared, implying that we would have to see it to the end that the tree bore fruit, without looking after the blossom, it would simply drop. How many blossoms would a person be able to look after in a tree? Ponder! How could the free, enormous annual harvests be possible with this or other difficulties?

If Almighty God were to enjoin upon man the task of preparing the trees' and plants' immediate environment as well, how could man accomplish this task for a period of years?

If the fruit or vegetables of plants bearing such fruits as melon, watermelon, or vegetables as pumpkin and the like needed to be watched over their shapes after blooming, but were neglected? First of all, they would not be round, and secondly they would fall apart by themselves, thereby serving no use at all. What in this case would have been man's precise duties and how would he have fared with all the difficulties? And if, on the other hand, someone were to lend a hand to mankind removing of him one of these hardships, think of how appreciative he would be to him. Man would have taken it as a sort of miracle, every time he was helped in his effort to resolve any of these hardships and would be grateful to his compassion till the day of the Hereafter.

Now Great God has prepared all our affairs properly, automatically, without any hardship and, and provides it for us after only a little effort. Is it appropriate that, instead of thanksgiving and seeking deeper Insight into (or Acquaintance with) the Glorious Unique One Being, to contrarily oppose and even deny Exalted Him altogether? Is not the servant deserving of the penalty should he transgress in return for all these favors, failing to be truthful to His Real Beneficence? The answer is affirmative.

If Almighty God had enjoined upon man the task of preparing a suitable underground environment for products such as potatoes, turnips, radishes, carrots and the like how would he prepare the environment for each of these objects? How would he manage the space underground, and how much room would he recognize would be dynamically required? How many times would he be required to work for each plant from the beginning of its growth to the end of its life term?

If Almighty God had not caused the earth and other materials needed for house construction to be humid and adhesive by means of water, would all these walls and buildings be built? How would man be able to build a place for his habitation?

If Almighty God had made mountains out of single pieces of unbreakable stone, how would the children of mankind make use of them or make paths for travel and other uses?

If Almighty God had not made the mountains a reservoir of water and snow in winter, would we have water in summer and fall? What would people have done?

If Almighty God had not created intact veins of metals and minerals in the earth's womb, the most beautiful suits of luxurious, modern people should then have been sewed with the thistle of deserts, or otherwise how?

In simple form we have, thus far, brought up the smallest representation of the values of Almighty Supreme's creatures. If one pays attention, it will be clearly understood that Almighty God has supplied all necessities of comfortable life for mankind in this small abode (the world). Almighty God has allowed man to make use of them with little effort through the searching intellect as an occupation for him. That is to see whether man, while being engaged with these products, will forget or remember the Almighty Creator of all creatures.

"We may test whichever of you is doing the best of deeds."

Or by observing all these Favors and Beneficence, you may tend further to Almighty God; furthermore, you may endeavor to achieve as best relationship with and acquire insight into the Almighty as possible through financial, bodily, and verbal services.

If Almighty God had not caused the rivers to initially flow in the directions which you see today, and were the mountains stable obstacles before them, in what way could mankind ever shape them in their present forms? How would they ever succeed making the rivers' trajectories?

If Almighty God had not created underneath the earth's crust an impenetrable level for water, how could all these rivers and oceans remain so firmly settled on the face of the earth, since earth has the natural quality of absorbing water and other fluids?

If Almighty God had not given the earth an incapable absorption characteristic vis-a-vis fluids contained within it, such as petroleum, oil, and other combustibles, how could all these billions of barrels be daily extracted? Yet the earth does not absorb, but has preserves them. What would have otherwise been our contemporary people's circumstances? Ponder! Could this task and other characteristics be inherent properties of the soil, a performance of an unintelligent being such as earth or secrets and wisdom of the Creator and Artificer, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds?

>Reflect profoundly!

If Exalted God created the mouths of volcanoes, within the earth, converged with the mines of petroleum, oil, and other greasy fluids and gas and had not created the barrier "for beneath them is a barrier which they do not transgress" in between, what would have been earth's situation otherwise? As on the ultimate stage of earth's annihilation, these two factors will collide with one another and the earth, by God's leave, will be shattered into many pieces. Almighty God has stated:

"One day the earth will be changed to a different earth..."

This is the major resurrection and all human children will be brought together in that desert.

If Almighty God had not kept the water of the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans salty, would it have been possible to live on earth with the fetid smell? The answer is no. Who else but the Self-Existent Almighty God places all these salts and other disinfecting compounds therein, in accurate measures? But could any sound intellect accept that all these performances are carried out spontaneously, without the Wise, Great Artificer? No never!

If Almighty God had not made salty water from the oceans sweet through evaporation namely filtering of the air and clouds, how could the salty water be recycled as rain or sown? Some people may argue on filtering it. Correct! Water filters are available now, but how would earlier peoples handled it; and how would plants have fared then in their growth process when water is a dominant element for animal and plant life on this earth?

What if Almighty God had not increased the level of coldness in winter in the right measure or had not created the two giant freezers at both poles of the earth, by means of which, most of the microbes would die or at least be contained? How, then would living creatures lives be, particularly humans?

If Almighty God had not intensified the heat at the equator and also in most countries during the summer season, so that besides the growth and maturing of the fruit tress, plants, crops, animals, microbes, too would die. What would the situation of human beings be then under such circumstances?

Reflect, some ignorant ones say, this Great, Unique Being, possessing all these Performances, Attributes and Glory, does not exist and that unworthy matter has spontaneously created all these phenomena in this perfect order. We seek refuge in God!

If Almighty God had not occasionally sent tropical rains in the hot areas, how then would life have been possible with intense heat?

If Almighty God had not sent the rain from above, to destroy the dust, smoke, dirt, and pollution, which have condensed in the air, where would we ever have a comfortable and nontoxic life, in particular in our time, with all the burning of fuels in machines and factories?

How Wise and Omniscient is the Glorious Supreme Being Who knew and has wisely placed everything appropriately.

"The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place" Hafiz

If Almighty God had kept the sun away from he earth for a while, what would have been man's situation in those years and how would he have lived?

If Almighty God had not given the sun the necessary, appropriate heat, how would we, residents of the earth, live? How would we have arranged to have necessary heat on our planet? By means of what capability and how difficult could we have accomplished this task?

If Almighty God had made sun scarcity as well as the rain and snow scarcity as drought, what would have happened then, and what would man have done?

What if Almighty God did not keep and hold firmly the present distance between the sun and the earth, while the sun, and all the planets belonging to our firmament, are moving towards an unknown ultimate destination travelling approximately millions of miles daily.

"The sun is traveling through a path towards a stationary point. This is the measurement of Wise and all-Knowing God."

Despite the enormous speeds in our solar system, distances are very precisely preserved and kept in proper order. There are no collisions among the globes and systems in galaxies with one another, despite their incredible rotational and revolutionary motions that they are compelled to undergo; neither do they come apart. Is this process an outcome of coincidence, coming into existence by itself? Can all these unintelligent celestial bodies ever execute these properly ordered motions by themselves?

Deliberately and attentively ponder, so you may find that the denial of Almighty God is like the denial of the existence of sun by a blind bat, metaphorically speaking, from the perspective of some people, but it is thousands of times more ignorant.

If Exalted God had brought either the sun or the earth, sometime, just a little closer to the other, what would have been man's situation? Who could then survive? How would life be sustained?

If Exalted God had not sent down the rain, snow, and hail in small drops, little by little, but had spilled at once the frozen clouds as mountains of water, snow or hail, who or what could have survived on the earth's surface under such circumstances? Which building could remain and which tree could survive unscathed?

Could all this precisely ordered organization be spontaneous and coincidental? Is it possible without a Creator-the Great, Unique Organizer? No, never!