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- Subject: The concept of God in Islam-19
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:14:16 -0600
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- 19 AL-AZIM
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- He is the Greatest--on the earth below and in the heavens
- above, in realms where our sight cannot reach and of which
- our minds cannot conceive. His is the absolute and perfect
- greatness. The greatness we know is all relative, and all of it is
- a witness to His being the Greatest. No greatness can be
- compared to His. The greatest thing we are able to know still
- has needs. How could the absolute Greatest have needs?
- Allah al-'Azim has no needs. He is the satisfier of all needs.
- We call some among us great. Greatness, in man, depends
- upon one's work, one's achievement. We call some among
- these great ones 'greatest'--those whose work is greatest.
- The work of these is nothing in comparison to the billions of
- greater works of Allah al-'Azim. The greatest man is one of
- Allah's works. The greatest work that he has done is one of
- Allah's works. Allah's humblest work, a blade of grass with
- its pulsating cells transforming the earth, the water, the air,
- the light of the sun into life, color, and sustenance for all His
- other works--all this is a factory containing mysteries that
- no botanist could venture to imagine. For seeing the great-
- ness of the Greatest, that blade of grass is a witness vast
- enough to surpass our comprehension. You who cannot
- even understand the mystery in the creation of that blade of
- grass must compare it to countless other things visible and
- invisible, reachable with all your telescopes and micro-
- scopes, unknowable in your wildest imagination, to see His
- greatness.
- In your minuteness and awe, you must prostrate and
- glorify Him, and pray to be included among those servants
- who meet His pleasure and are accepted by Him.
- 'Abd al-'Azim is he to whom Allah appears in His perfect
- greatness. And from the power generating from the right he
- sees to the condemnation of the ones who oppose the right.
- He appears above others in magnihcence and strength as his
- inner greatness is reflected in his outer appearance.
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- Fwd by Remzi Cirit
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