ESSENCE OF ISLAM

1000 miles an hour—much faster than the average passenger plane— yet we move around on its surface, and live our daily lives without any fear of being thrown off like the pebble from the potter’s wheel. What a miracle this is! The explanation scientists give us is that the Earth pulls us with great force from underneath, while the pressure of the atmosphere from above pushes us firmly to the ground. A force attracting us from below, and a five hundred mile thick blanket of air enveloping us from above are miracles enough in themselves, and to say that they explain our not flying off into space is to lend even greater credence to the miraculous nature of our entire world. Everything in this world is, in fact, a miracle. Just think what happens when we put tiny seeds into the ground. The soil in which they are planted is uniform in constitution, but they bring forth a vast array of plants—radishes, carrots, turnips, guavas, mangoes, mustard plants—everything from the humblest blade of grass to the mightiest oak! Each plant has its distinct appearance, taste and fragrance, and, according to its species, gives certain benefits to humankind. On all sides of us a whole world of miraculous diversity and proportions stretches out before our eyes. Moreover, at every instant, a great variety of life forms are continually coming into existence, quite unaided by man. Yet, if all of the human beings in this world were to come together, they would not be able to create even one tiny grain of sand! This amounts to a miracle of such amazing proportions that words fail us when we have to describe it. When we try to do so, we only degrade it, for we are unable to do justice to it with mere human words. All we can do is look on in wonder, and ask ourselves: “Besides God, who could have made manifest such a miracle?” Miracles All Around Us Everything in this world is made up of atoms. In its final analysis, every object is a collection of these tiny particles. Yet, by some strange miracle, when these atoms come together in certain proportions, they form the dazzling globe of the sun, and when the same atoms accumulate elsewhere in different proportions, they flow in a cascade God did not just leave man in a world where there was no way to find the truth. Divine provision for him went much further than that. God created Adam, the first man—whom He had made not just an ordinary mortal but also a prophet— and taught him everything that He wanted from man.