AN ADMONITION

An Admonition ~ 52 ~ AN ADMONITION Do you not see how God sends down water from the sky which penetrates the earth and gathers in springs beneath? With it He brings forth plants of various colours. They wither, they turn yellow, and then He turns them to chaff. Surely in this there is an admonition for men of understanding. He whose heart God has opened to Islam, shall receive light from his Lord. But woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of God! Truly, they are in the grossest error. (The Qur’an 39:21-22) The breathtakingly astonishing system of rains on earth, then the growth of vegetation from it, then the bringing forth of crops — all these material happenings have innumerable lessons to teach. But only those who are capable of going deeper into the subject will learn anything from them. God has planned the external world in such a fashion that everything in it serves as a sign of the Higher Reality. Man has, moreover, been endowed