EVERYTHING YOU POSSESS IS A FAVOUR FROM ALLAH

We taste delicious flavours. The relative proportions of the vitamin, mineral, carbohydrate or protein content of the food we eat, or how the excess of these nutrients are stored or utilised in the body never concern us. Moreover, we are mostly never aware that such complicated operations take place in our body.

When we hold some material in our hands, we immediately know if it is soft or hard. What is more, we need no mental effort to do this. Numerous similar minute operations take place in our body. The organs, responsible for these operations, have complicated mechanisms. The human body functions almost like a factory of enormous complexity and ingenuity. This body is one of the major favours given to man since man leads his existence on earth with it.

Ayaat, Signs for the People

By Sh Mohamed Metwalli Al-Sha'rawee Allah Ta'ala wanted to show us that there is a God capable of everything, Allah who created man and everything in the universe for serving humankind and who also created the universe. He made things that are stronger than man...

The Spider, a sign of Allah

As a man cleans his house, he might see a spider that has woven its web in a corner of the house. If he realises that he ought to think about this creature which is normally of no importance to anyone, he will see new doors being opened for him. This tiny insect he...

The Ability to see the Signs of Allah

Say: "Praise be to Allah. He will show you His Signs and you will recognise them. Your Lord is not heedless of anything you do." ( Surat an-Naml: 93)In many societies today, the Qur'an is assessed very differently from what is the real purpose of its revelation. In...

Who Is Allah?

Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) described the greatness of Allah in the most beautiful way:"He is controlling the affairs of all the kingdoms. He commands and prohibits, creates and gives provision, and gives death and gives life. He raises and lowers...

The Quran on Human Embryonic Development:

In the Holy Quran, God speaks about the stages of man’s embryonic development: "We created man from an extract of clay. Then We made him as a drop in a place of settlement, firmly fixed. Then We made the drop into an alaqah (leech, suspended...

Looking and Seeing…

The Critical DifferenceBy Mirza Yawar BaigWe look with our eyes but we ‘see’ with our knowledge. We look at a man with sunken cheeks, walking bent a little forward and say to ourselves, ‘He must be poor and hungry.’ A physician looks at him and...