Islam As It Is
Belief in God
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What further proof do we need that the power of a
Great God lies behind this world?
When we look at the different life forms, we witness
an astonishing spectacle. Certain material objects
come together in one body, and there comes into
being a creature like a fish swimming through
water, or a bird soaring in the skies. Of the great
variety of creatures, which abound on the earth, the
one of greatest interest to us is Man. In ways that
are a mystery to us, he is moulded into a
well-proportioned form. The bones within him take
on the meaningful shape of the skeleton, which is
covered with flesh and sealed in by a layer of skin,
out of which sprout hair and nails. With blood
coursing through channels within this frame, all of
this adds up to a human being who walks about,
holds things in his hands, who hears, smells, tastes,
who has a mind which remembers things,
accumulates information, analyses it and then
expresses it in speech and in writing.
The formation of such an amazing being from inert
matter is more than a miracle. The particles of
which a man is composed are the same as that of
