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22 Allah's Artistry In Colour

olour is a concept that helps us to
identify the properties of objects Allah, there is no
C and define them more precisely. god but Him, the
Thinking about the colours of the objects Living, the Self-
around us, we simply come to notice what a Sustaining. He is
variety of detailed colours we are surround- not subject to
ed by. Everything, animate or inanimate, has drowsiness or
a colour. Living creatures of the same species sleep. Everything in
have the same particular colours everywhere the heavens and
the earth belongs
in the world. No matter where you go, the
to Him. (Surat al-
colour of the flesh of the water-melon is
Baqara: 255)
always red, kiwis are always green, seas are
always shades of blue and green, snow is
white, lemons are yellow, the colour of ele-
phants is the same in any part of the world as also the colours of trees. They
never change. This goes for artificially produced colours as well. Wherever
you go on the earth, if you mix red with yellow, you will get orange or if you
mix black and white you will get grey. The result is always the same.
At this point, it may be useful to think somewhat differently. First, let us
think by asking the question of how the colours of objects are made. We can
explain this by an example. Imagine that you walk into a store and see fabric
of different designs and models, the colours of which are extremely harmo-
nious with each other. Surely, those fabrics did not come there by chance;
conscious people drafted their designs, determined their colours, subjected
them to a number of dying processes, and after putting them through many
other intermediate stages, they displayed them in that store. In short, the
existence of these fabrics depends on the people who designed and manu-
factured them. When you see them, you do not say that they came there by
chance, or that their designs were formed by coincidence as a result of paints
spilt over the fabrics. In fact, no man of reason would make such a claim.
Indeed, there is a conscious Will that presents us the views we see in nature
all the time, the butterflies, flowers, multi-coloured places under the sea,
trees, and clouds etc., just in the way these fabrics are presented to us. The
diversity in the universe is the consequence of a special design. This design