Living in God's Glory
English book, p. 219
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
LEARNING FROM NATURE a human being, this is to tolerate the intolerable. God has made this very thing the price of his Paradise. The blessing of Paradise is for those fortunate souls who can offer its price in the form of this gift. LEARNING FROM NATURE The highest quality of a human being can be summed up in these two words: predictable character. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956), the English poet, once observed a lady at a dining table taking her meal. she was eating some food placed on the table, like porridge, muffins, apples, etc. he then had an extraordinary thought: outside the lady, these are food items, but once the lady takes in these items, they are readily converted into a living woman; that is, Miss T. de la Mare later composed a poem on this idea. he added these lines to the poem: It is a very odd thing - As odd can be - That whatever Miss T eats Turns into Miss T. it is a miracle of Miss T’s stomach. however, one’s mind can conceive of something a million times stranger than this. all these food items were produced in an external world. however, miraculously, these food items are as per our needs. Both are complementary to each other. This

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