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Chapter 7

Manner of Growth and Creation of Fruits

Preface: Ponder that there are surprising truths in all trees beside the taste of their fruits, such as the shell in different fruits. In some fruit, the skin is glued to the flesh or seed, while in others contrarily, it is separable. These are expressing the secrets of His Almighty's Great, Wise, and Powerful Hand. Thereby, He is showing and conveying to us:

Whatever We wish, We do that and We are able to do so!

Then, O! Faithful servant! By exploring the various secrets and luminosities of these Epistles you realize that the Eternal and Imperishable Omnipotent, before our Creation, pulled us out of the three categories of creatures (inanimate, animates, and human beings following false religions) and created us through His Grace and Generosity in the martial academy. He granted all this to us through His Grace and Favor, without any previous hard worshiping (riyaadat). Hence, if we now, in our worldly affairs, pay a little attention to serving God's creatures for His Happiness, indeed, He, the Almighty, will grant us more and better favors.

As we observed and are still observing that He has taken us from the beginning of the creation into the society of monotheists, especially the followers of the intact Qur'an of Islam; the Cherisher of the worlds has created us in His special Circle of Mercy.

Hereby, as you are remarking, He, the Almighty, has done us the favor of granting to us the way of Relationship for faithful ones through the shortest distance, for the purpose of generalizing the principle of brotherhood, equality, and justice, in the light of spreading monotheism.

Let us hope for the quickest and the highest victory for and assistance to us and all faithful people. By Your Honor and Generosity O' Cherisher, the Alone, the Unique (Waahid), the One (Ahad), and the Great (Akbar)!

1. Have you reflected? That the seed of each tree is actually conserved in its specific woody box. For a certain time, the "box" insulates the principle nucleus of the future tree from the attacks of external calamities and insects. Actually, most of these woody boxes also contain a special kind of oil, for the purpose of a more complete protection of the seed.

Truly, Glorious He is the Evolver Creator (Khaaliq ul-Baaree) and the Omnipotent Enliver (Qaadir ul-Haei).

2. Have you reflected? Inside a small seed of a mulberry, an apricot, a nut and the rest a giant tree of twenty five meter height and a volume of ten to fifteen meter diameter is placed. The annual harvest of thousands of, for instance, apricots, mulberries or nuts, their leaves and other products are condensed and hidden inside their corresponding small body of seeds.

How Great ('Azeem) God He is, with all these manifestations of power.

3. Have you reflected? That each of these seeds contains many of the following facilities.

First: The two primary divisions, the upper part (the trunk) and the lower parts (the roots). Each of these divisions involuntarily determines its way upward and downward and distinguishes its particular trajectory.

Second: The roots are equipped with so-called "bulldozers." These bulldozers serve the purpose of placing the roots in the earth in such a way that the roots should not suffer, and the surrounding earth should not appear modified.

4. Have you reflected? These roots have generally three duties:

a. After the roots have distinguished the specific nutrients in the remote areas, they attract and absorb them through electromagnetism or their particular attraction forces. They supply the root-nurturing elements to the roots, and the body-nurturing elements to the body. From then on, there is the process of how the nutrients for the leaves and fruit are properly analyzed and distributed. All this is an astonishing accomplishment of His Glorious Supreme Being (Hadhrat-e Kibriyaa).

b. The process in which the fatty, sour, sweet, hot, bitter and other stuffs are attracted and absorbed from the soil at a certain distance and supplied to their necessary locations is another perplexing task.

c. The pumping machinery pumps with efficiency of many meters upward: Contrarily, it pumps the water mixed with nutrients absorbed from the soil upward without changes, toward the body. It very properly supplies the portion of each branch and sub-branches.

How Wise is Glorious Great ('Azeem), the Generous (Kareem) and Beneficent (Raheem).

5. Have you reflected? That the generations of grains and trees also bear inside their seeds or eggs some perplexing secrets and mysteries pertaining to their manner of creation. Namely, all their growth materials and mechanisms both inside and outside the earth are put in that one seed or egg in such a way that, by just the land and the weather being cooperative, its stem comes out without hesitation and continues to grow and develop.

Sure! The All-Seeing Hearer (Sama'e ul-Baseer) and the Absolutely Omnipotent Enliver (Haei ul-Qadeer), is Exalted He.

6. Have you reflected? That each fruit has a shell or cover which, if necessary, can be consumed, and there would definitely be wisdom behind it. Therefore, these have their skin glued to the actual body, such as apricots, plum, cherries and so forth. If it is not deemed necessary for man to eat it, then, during the ripening process, the fruit's flesh automatically detaches itself from the shell. Such is the shell of bananas, oranges and so forth. Through these observations, Almighty God conveys to us that there is no difficulty for Our Holiness to create fruits with separable or non-separable shells.

How Firm-Powerful (DhulQooat ul-Mateen) Cherisher He is!

7. Have you reflected? There are some fruits and vegetables that have to be consumed either cooked or raw but the shell has to be manually removed, such as melon, watermelon, pumpkin and so forth. So that man may not be idle and there may be a portion for animals and other living creatures as well.

Truly, Glorious is He the All-Knowing Provider (Raaziq ul-'Aleem) and Generous Lord (Sultaan ul-Kareem).

8. Have you reflected? The agricultural scientists have claimed that the color of fruits, trees, flowers and vegetables is a projection of moonlight. On this basis, you may ponder, that there are underground vegetables, which also have their own particular colors, such as: beets, turnip, carrot and many other examples.

Thereby Almighty God conveys to us that it is no problem for His Almighty Glorious Being to give color to fruits and vegetables under or above the ground, or inside the fruit such as watermelon, and elsewhere.

How Eternal (Qadeem) and Wise (Hakeem) Omnipotent (Qaadir) is All-Knowing ('Aleem), Glorious God!

9. Have you reflected? The colors of most fruits have been made monochromatic, such as in the black cherry, plum, apricot and so forth. In some others, the color has been made polychromatic, such as in the apple, pear, the peach, and hundreds of others. These observations reveal that there is no problem for the Perfect and Obvious Power of His Glorious Being to shape and mold various appearances, color and so on, and to create things in a variety of ways that He wills.

Truly, He Almighty is the Great ('Azeem) Creator and the Sincere Concealer (Saadiq us-Sattaar).