The Qur’an For All Humanity
An Admonition
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AN ADMONITION
Do you not see how God sends down water from
the sky which penetrates the earth and gathers in
springs beneath? With it He brings forth plants of
various colours. They wither, they turn yellow,
and then He turns them to chaff. Surely in this
there is an admonition for men of understanding.
He whose heart God has opened to Islam, shall
receive light from his Lord. But woe to those whose
hearts are hardened against the remembrance of
God! Truly, they are in the grossest error.
(The Qur’an 39:21-22)
The breathtakingly astonishing system of rains on
earth, then the growth of vegetation from it, then
the bringing forth of crops — all these material
happenings have innumerable lessons to teach. But
only those who are capable of going deeper into the
subject will learn anything from them.
God has planned the external world in such a
fashion that everything in it serves as a sign of the
Higher Reality. Man has, moreover, been endowed
