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A pproaching the West—145 command of All ā h; and I will announce to you what you will eat and what you will store up in your houses. Surely, therein is a Sign for you, if you be believers. ’ (3:50) Obviously, here Jesus is speaking in symbolic language. He was given the Sign to transform his humble and poor disciples into saints soaring high in lofty regions of spirituality. He cleansed them of many moral impurities, healed them of spiritual blindness and revived them from dead to forge a living connection with God Almighty. The important point to note is that all such Signs and wonders are performed by a Prophet ‘by the command of All ā h. ’ Thus, in reality it is the power and authority of the Divine presence working behind the Signs. Signs in the Creation The Holy Qur’ ā n emphatically declares that cosmos is replete with the Signs that lead to an awe-inspiring recognition of the Glorious God. Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and in the alternation of the night and day, and in the ships which sail in the sea with that which profits men, and in the water that All ā h send down from the sky and quickens therewith the earth after its death and scatters therein all kinds of beasts, and in the change of the winds, and the clouds pressed into service between the heaven and the