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A llah reminds us of His
bounties, which are as boundless as the ocean. It is another
wonder of Allah that salt water should produce flesh of such
fresh, tender, and delicate flavour. We get the delicate flesh
of fishes and marine creatures of all kinds; we get the
treasures of the deep; pearls, coral, amber, and things of that
kind; and we have the stately ships ploughing the waves, for
maritime commerce and intercourse, for unifying mankind, and
for realising the spiritual bounty of Allah which can best be
expressed by the boundless ocean.
The least thought and study of nature will show us Allah's wise
and benign Providence in making processes of nature subserve man's
use and refined life.
Of all Allah's favours innumerable, His Mercy and Forgiveness
in the spiritual plane is the greatest, and of eternal value to
us in our lives. Allah is the only creator and the Ultimate Reality.
Everything else is created by Him, and reflects His glory.
Everything points to Allah, the One True Eternal God. If so, there
is a Hereafter, for He has declared it. In so far as people do not
believe this, the fault is in their Will; they do not wish to
believe, and the motive behind is arrogance, the sin which brought
about the fall of Iblis.
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