The Qur’an For All Humanity
A Human Failing
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A HUMAN FAILING
Men, serve your Lord, Who has created you and
those who have gone before you, so that you may
guard yourselves against evil; Who has made the
earth a bed for you and the sky a dome, and has
sent down water from the sky to bring forth fruits
for your sustenance. Do not knowingly set up
other gods beside Him.
(The Qur’an 2:21-22)
Man is a creature who cannot survive on his own.
At all times he requires many a support to maintain
his existence in this world: an earth whose gravity
keeps him upon its surface; an atmosphere to
provide him with a constant supply of oxygen; a
sun, which unfailingly gives him heat and light; an
abundance of water, without which no human life
is possible; a variety of foods to give him continual
nourishment. God, therefore, as the Creator of man,
and of all the other things in the heavens and on
earth, has made lavish provision of all these
innumerable other things for man’s existence in this
world.
