The Qur’an For All Humanity
An Admonition
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with such capabilities as help him to read those
signs and understand them. Now those who keep
their natural faculties alive and, by availing of them,
ponder over the things of the world, will unlock the
doors of realisation within themselves. While those
who allow the intellect to become sluggish will be
unable to learn lessons from anything. They will
see, but this will not be the seeing of realisation;
they will hear, but this will not be the hearing of
realisation.
In this present world everything that begins is
heading towards its pre-destined end. For instance,
a seed, once sprouted, starts its life as a tiny plant,
then gradually develops into a sapling, then into a
fully grown tree. The same is true of the things of
this world.
This happening serves as a divine lesson for man. In
this way God tells man that he is, also heading from
beginning to end: childhood followed by youth and
old age. Afterwards death will lead us to a new and
eternal existence.
