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Nature and Man

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By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

NATURE AND MAN that many powers are hidden: the steam engine is hidden in nature, like the motor car, the airplane, the telephone, the mobile phone, the internet, etc. Inside nature, an entire civilisation is hidden, a civilisation that can make man’s life amazingly attractive and alluring. Modern man’s error was not that he began studying nature and establishing a civilisation. Instead, the error lay in a massive blunder that he made—he took full advantage of the blessings of nature, but he completely ignored or forgot the Benefactor, the Giver of all these blessings—that is, God. These blessings were the creation of God, the Creator. When modern man discovered the blessings of nature, he fell upon them hungrily. Breaking all barriers and restraints, man took full advantage of the bounties of nature that modern science led him to. This was man’s primary mistake. The truth is that to partake of the blessings of God is not legitimate until and unless man acknowledges God, the Benefactor, and the Giver of all these blessings. Acknowledging the

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