Breakfast
Every believer to whom Allah has given the ability to think
and understand knows when he goes into the kitchen to make
breakfast in the morning that all the blessings of food and drink
given in creation are facts leading to faith.
For example, the fire he uses to cook his food can cause a
great deal of harm to him as well as to many other things; it also
has the ability to destroy. But heat is a requirement for making
food edible and from this point of view it is a very great blessing.
In other words, like everything else on the earth, fire has been put
at the service of human beings. In the Qur'an, Allah says,
And He has made everything in the heavens and everything
on the earth subservient to you. (Surat al-Jathiyya: 13)
Besides this, fire is a reminder for the believer in this life of
the pains of the Fire. In describing in the Qur'an those who will go
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24 Hours in the Life of a Muslim
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