Unity of God — Page 25
25 and the Teachings of Muhammad s as the Will of God transcends all. Furthermore, the Holy Prophet s as refuted shirk through evidence. One argument he presented to refute shirk is that no object in the world is independent or self-sufficient. All things are interdependent. Rainfall depends on the Sun; its heat transforms water into vapours, which rise to form clouds. Furthermore, the Sun affects the rotation of the Earth. In the same way, everything functions in a systematic way. There is an anecdote about a saintly man who lived in Delhi. Once, he asked a disciple, ‘Do you know how to eat a Laddu 9 ?’ The disciple replied, ‘What’s so difficult about that? Pick it up and place it in your mouth. ’ The saint said, ‘That is incorrect. I will show you the right way to eat it. ’ One day, he received some sweets, so he called upon the disciple and asked him to take a seat. He took a Laddu and placed it on a handkerchief. Next, he broke a small piece and said, ‘Mian Ghulam Ali (his disciple), have you any idea all the means which God provided for the production of this sweet? It contains oil, sugar, flour, and many other ingredients, all of which 9 A spherical sweet originating from the Indian subcontinent. [Publishers]