The Good Life
The Cosmic Call
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THE COSMIC CALL
It is God who splits the grain and the date stone. He
brings forth the living from the dead, and the dead
from the living. Such is God. How then can you
turn away from Him? He splits the sky into dawn.
He has made the night for repose and the sun and
the moon for reckoning. Such is the ordinance of
God, the Mighty, the Wise. It is He who has created
for you the stars, so that you may be guided by
them in the darkness by land and sea. We have
made plain our signs for people who understand. It
is He who sent down water from the sky. With it
We bring forth the shoot of every plant and then
We have brought forth its green leaf and from it
close-compounded grain; and out of the date-palm,
from its pollen, dates thick-clustered, ready to the
hand; and gardens of grapes, olives and
pomegranates, like and unlike one another. Look
upon their fruits when they fructify and ripen.
Surely in all this are signs for people who believe.
Yet they ascribe as partners to Him the jinn, though
He created them, and they impute to Him sons and
daughters without any knowledge. Glory be to Him
and exalted be He above what they describe. He is
