was published in the newspapers, when some fishermen saw some creature that had got separated from its species and had sunk to the bottom of the sea, and then wept when it was fed some green leaves and was saved. Whereas there are thousands of miracles of mercy and grace in the sustenance bestowed to the least young from the breasts of its mother like the spring of Kawthar, and in others like this. But human-inspired philosophy does not see them that it might offer thanks and recognize the Most Merciful and Compassionate One and respond to Him with gratitude.

Yes, the wisdom of the Qur'an rends the veil of the commonplace and teaches humankind those universal, general wondrous miracles and extraordinary bounties; it makes known Almighty God and urges men to worship Him and offer universal thanks.

One of the very strangest errors of human philosophy is this: human will and choice are insufficient for speech, the most obvious and least of actions; they cannot create it; they can only emit air and articulate the sounds of the letters. Almighty God creates the words in consequence of that particular act and makes thousands of copies of them in the air. Anyone with a grain of intelligence would understand what a serious error it is to give the name of "human invention" — although man lacks the power to do that much — to wondrous, universal miracles of power which all the causes in existence are powerless to produce.

An example of this is to say about a wretched, absolutely impotent man who due to the discovery, for human advantages, of a divine law which comprises a hundred thousand marvels, that is, the radio, which was dis- covered through divine inspiration as a sort of acceptance for active prayer: "Ah! So-and-so the inventor created the radio and discovered electrical forces. And some other inventors are trying to create a substance for reading the human mind!"

Yes, Almighty God created the universe as a guest house for human beings containing all their needs and requisites; He bestows bounties on them in the form of feasts which have remained concealed down the centuries, as a consequence of their investigations aided by their joint efforts and the meeting of minds, which are a sort of active prayer, While thanks should be offered for these, it is contempt for the bounties and ingratitude to look on them as the inventions of common, powerless men, and cause those wonders, which are the result of a universal consciousness, knowledge, will, mercy, and grace, to be forgotten and to refer them to unconscious chance, nature, and lifeless matter. It is to open the door to absolute ignorance, which is opposed to the essence of humanity, created as it is in the finest of forms. It is imperative, therefore, to look on creatures as signi-