The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
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to God that human beings can retain their hold on
the cord that binds each to each.
The Qur’an explains that it is this One God alone
who sustains us throughout our lives here on this
earth. Through Him our hearts are set at ease, for it
is He who provides true warmth in life. He rescues
us in times of peril, assists us in the hour of need.
All power rests in His hands: honour and glory will
be the rewards of any nation who looks to Him for
support, while only disgrace and humiliation will
be the lot of those who abandon Him. To know this
is to hold the key to all the treasures in life. He who
possesses this key gains all; he who loses it, loses
all.
We attach great importance to the scientists who
discovered electric and steam power, thus
providing human civilization with opportunities for
progress. But the greatness of the reality which this
Book lays before us is immeasurable. It does not just
give us knowledge of machines, but of the human
beings for whom all these machines have been
made. It tells us of Man, and Man in turn learns
from it the secret of successful living.
