Allah The Exalted — Page 42
4 is to reverse the law of nature. For a perfect composition it is necessary that the order of the composition should be in such accord with the order of nature as if it were its photograph in which that which is natural and in fact prior should be prior in description also. Thus in these verses the highest eloquence is displayed in which the natural order is perfectly observed. The verses follow the order which everyone possessing insight would observe in the order of the universe. Is this not the straightfor- ward way that the order in which Divine bounties appear in the book of nature should be followed also in the Re- vealed Book? To take exception to such an excellent and wise order is the characteristic of those blind ones who have lost at once both their sight and their insight. 48 We revert to the subject and proceed to expound what is set out in S u rah F a ti h ah from Rabb-ul-‘ A lam i n to M a lik-i- Yaum-id-D i n. As expounded in the Holy Qur’ a n, it com- prises four grand verities: The first verity is that God Almighty is Rabb-ul-‘ A lam i n , that is to say, that God is the Rabb and Master of all that which is in the universe. All that appears, is seen, felt or perceived by reason, is His creation, and that true exis- tence belongs only to God Almighty and to nothing else. In short, the universe with all its components is created and is the creation of God. There is nothing in the com- ponents of the universe which is not the creation of God. 48 The eye of the ill-wisher, wherever it lands; Is prone to see evil even where there is good. [Publisher]