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pondering over the structure of the earth and heavenly bodies impels them to affirm that this firm and orderly system could not have been created in vain but is a manifestation of divine attributes. Thus, confessing the Godhead of the Creator of the universe, they supplicate: Lord Thou art Holy above being denied and being attributed imperfect qualities. Safeguard us, therefore, against the fire of hell; meaning that a denial of God is very hell itself and that all comfort and delight proceed from Him and from His recognition. He who is deprived of the recognition of God abides in hell in this very life. The Nature of Human Conscience 187 Human conscience is also a source of knowledge which has been named human nature in the Book of God, as Allah, the Exalted, has said: فِطْرَتَ اللهِ الَّتِي فَطَرَ النَّاسَ عَلَيْهَا 230 That is, follow the nature designed by Allah, the nature according to which He has fashioned mankind. What is the impress of that nature? It is to believe in God as One, without associate, Creator of all, above birth and death. We have described conscience as a source of knowledge by certainty of inference though, 230. And follow the nature made by Allāh― the nature in which He has created mankind. (The Holy Quran, ar-Rum 30:31)