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Chapter 6

Fruits and the Secrets Behind their Creation and Tastes

Preface: Since from the study of circumstances of variety of sustenance and its providence for each person, you are informed to the necessary extent of their secrets, it is worthwhile to focus a bit more. We take a partial look at the circumstances of the creation of trees and fruits and the secrets therein. So that we may understand how graciously Almighty God is guiding us towards the means of establishment of a relationship of the servant with Him Almighty through very simple ways based on the 2500 verses of the Generous Qur'an which is intact so far.

You will consider this topic in two parts, Fruit and Trees. According to these Epistles' tradition, we should have started first with the trees and then proceeded to their fruits. However, since this compilation is essentially a garden growing all around with fruits of truth and pleasures, we prefer, with the help of God, firstly, to give you a taste of the enjoyable fruits of spirituality, refreshing in the light of faith. Afterwards, we will draw your attention to as how such fruits are obtained from trees. Hereby, pay attention to the section of fruits and their pleasures.

A - Fruits and Their Pleasures-

1. Have you reflected? There is an amazing trick observed in the raw fruits. Initially, as you know, they are sour, coarse, rough, and extremely disagreeable to the taste. Ponder once, the transformation of this sourness to sweetness, under that same initial shell. What Being and Might could ever accomplish it, other than the Imperceptible Hand of Glorious God?

How Wise (Hakeem) and Able (Qaadir) is Exalted He.

2. Have you reflected? That the transformation of sweetness to sourness or bitterness is possible from the standpoint of chemistry, but to some extent, the transformation of sourness or bitterness to sweetness is impossible. He Almighty alone possesses the perfect mastery of transforming things' nature and that is it. Hence, pray that Almighty God may transform our distance and separation from Him Almighty and from the secrets of His Almighty's Holy Names and His Almighty's Friends, to the sweetness of the Nearness of His Unique Being and the chaste-hearted companions. Amen then Amen. O! Cherisher of the Worlds. O! The Most Merciful of the merciful ones Arham ur-Raahimeen. And that He may sooner make it available for His practicing and struggling pious ones to be united here.

And that the Almighty may grant us and other friends the success to spread monotheism and expand justice to its ultimate level, based on principles of brotherhood and equality! Amen.

3. Have you reflected? Why most unripe fruit, such as grapes, apricots, cherries and the like are made sour, course, and distasteful?

Well! If those fruits were initially as sweet as they are in ripeness, then Man, due to his inherent haste, would have eaten and ruined them before they had grown.

The Great Lord, how Wise He is about all the secrets of His creation out of which we have not perceived a little portion yet.

4. Have you reflected? Fruits are His Almighty Glorious Being's frozen bottles of juice such as apricots, peaches, pear, plum, and thousands of other kinds.

They are not frozen in such way that would bother us, rather with this quality they are pleasant.

How Merciful (Raheem) and Generous (Kareem) is the Wise (Hakeem) Glorious God.

5. Have you reflected? That some of the above mentioned bottles of juice are put together in packages. Some of these packages are big like bananas, dates, grapes and the like, which we call bunch of grape, dates or bananas.

How Wise (Hakeem) and Grantor of bestowments (Mu'ti ul-ataya) is His Holiness Exalted Majesty (Kibriyaa).

6. Have you reflected? That one small package consisting of hundreds of small bottles of juice is called one mulberry. How Great Lord, Who has so properly lined up all these small bottles of juice that it seems as a whole to be a single piece which, in reality, consists of hundreds of separate containers or small bottles of juice.

How Wise All-Embracing the Loving (Waasa' ul-Hakeem ul-Wadood), He is the Alone Existing Cherisher.

7. Have you reflected? That, one melon is a hollowed container of frozen juice and one watermelon is a filled container of frozen juice, which do not liquefy when exposed to sunlight.

Eat and Drink O! Man!
Ponder O! Muslim and O! People of Faith
How Wise (Hakeem) is Exalted God.