Tazkirul Quran, Qur’an 16:10–11
Bees (Al-Nahl)
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
English text; the translator is not named in the archive’s data.
Translation
(10) It is He who sends down water from the sky. From it you drink and with it trees grow on which you pasture your cattle. (11) And with it He grows for you corn, and the olive and the date-palm and the grape, and all kinds of fruits. Surely, in that is a sign for a people who reflect.
Commentary
(a) The clouds send down rain from the sky and, thanks to this, extremely fruitful results appear on the earth down below. This coordinated and harmonious action of ‘heaven and earth’ clearly proves that the God of earth is the same as that of heaven.
There is perfect harmony among the different parts of the universe. This harmony is definite proof of the fact that the Creator and Lord of the whole universe is only one. In the present structure of the universe, there is no scope for more than one God, and when the real Creator and Lord is one God, making any thing other than Him an object of worship will be absolutely indefensible.