Knowing Our Lord (part 4)

GOD GIVES BLESSINGS TO HUMAN BEINGS

“Truly God, He is the Provider, the Possessor of Strength, the Sure.”

(Surat adh-Dhariyat, 58)

God has infinite mercy. We can survive, thanks to the blessings that He gives. God makes the plants, which are for us, sprout from the earth. He brings green plants and spikes of grain from the earth without even cultivating it. Yellow, red, green, and orange fruits and vegetables come from the earth.

God covers a 4500-Celsius-degree mass of fire beneath our feet with earth. He brings down tons of pure water from the sky. He fills the blue seas with thousands of different kinds of creatures.

Every moment, God creates the oxygen that fills our lungs.  We can’t count the number of blessings God has created for us. This fact is related in the Qur’an thus:

“He has given you everything you have asked Him for. If you tried to number God’s blessings, you could never count them.…”

(Surah Ibrahim, 34)

We must never forget that God has given us these blessings. We must remember and thank Him at all times.

 

 

GOD HEALS SICK PEOPLE

“And when I am ill, it is He Who heals me.”

(Surat ash-Shu‘ara’, 80)

When we are sick, we realize how weak we are and how much we need God. He has created hundreds of different kinds of sicknesses to remind us that we are weak. An invisible virus that makes a person unrecognizable, or a germ entering our bodies that sometimes cannot even be identified, are clear signs of God’s power.

Experiments and research done by scientists to destroy one single virus show us the supremity of God’s Creation. Because it is God Who gives sickness, it will pass only when He wills. If He wills, as Healer, He will take away the sickness He has given. If He does not will it, all the doctors in the world with their advanced technological devices and latest drugs cannot make a person better.

All drugs are a means to cure illness. If God wills, He will give permission for a person to be cured by therapy. If He does not will a person to be cured, even a simple illness can cause that person’s death.

This being the case, what we should do is remember God’s infinite power and pray to get well when we are sick.

 

 

LET’S THINK AGAIN

The Almighty Lord has created us and given us many different blessings.

His power is over everything.

He knows our inner thoughts and everything we do.

He forgives the mistakes we make.

He cures us when we are sick.

What we should do is come to know God very well and obey His commands.

God reveals in the Qu’ran:

“Everything in the heavens and the Earth glorifies God. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. The kingdom of the heavens and the Earth belongs to Him. He gives life and causes to die. He has power over all things. He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward. He has knowledge of all things.”

(Surat al-Hadid, 1-3)

PS: this is a copy of Harun Yahya’s article (with the title: Knowing Our Lord), available on http://www.harunyahya.com/.