Fourteenth window: Consider the following verses:

Say: "In whose hand is the dominion of all things?" (23:88)
There is nothing but its treasuries are with us. (15:21)
There is not a moving creature but He grasps its forelock. (11:56)
Surely my Lord records and preserves all things. (11:57)

These verses state that everything, in all circumstances and aspects of its life and existence, needs a single Creator of Majesty. Looking at creatures, we see an absolute force within absolute weakness and impressions and inscriptions of an absolute power in absolute impotence. For example, awakening the life-force in plant seeds and roots is extraordinary.

There also are manifestations of absolute wealth within absolute poverty and sterility, like the poverty of Earth and trees in winter and their glittering profusion in spring. Sparks of absolute life are observed in absolutely lifeless matter (e.g., the transformation of mineral elements into living entities). Manifestations of all-encompassing consciousness are seen in absolute ignorance, as when everything acts as if consciously conforming to the universe's order, life's principles, and wisdom's demands. Such manifestations open windows onto the necessary Existence and Unity of One Absolutely Powerful, Strong, Rich, and Knowing, as well as Living and Self-Subsistent. In their totality, they point to a luminous highway (the way of believing in God and His Oneness) on a large scale.

If you ascribe creativity to nature and accept it as self-originated instead of recognizing Divine Power, you must acknowledge that everything contains an infinite force and power, wisdom and skill, and the capacity to see, know, and direct most other things.

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