Islam As It Is
Belief in God
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the humblest blade of grass to the mightiest oak.
Each plant has its own distinct appearance, taste
and fragrance, and, according to its species, gives
certain benefits to mankind.
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 all 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?”
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
