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24 Hours in the Life of a Muslim
24 Hours in the Life of a Muslim

to make it easy for human beings to eat
their food and take benefit and pleasure
from it.
Another important thing on which a
believer reflects is the fact that he can per-
ceive the smells of the food in the kitchen
and can taste it without any effort. This is
possible because of the wonderful faculties
he has. His sense of taste and smell, which
do not cease throughout his life, work per-
fectly for him at no cost; they have taken no
training to work so effectively and are themselves
unconscious of their workings.

If a person did not have his sense of
taste, the various tastes of meat, fish, veg-
etables, soups, salads, fruits, drinks, and
jams would have no meaning for him.
Besides, the taste of these things might not
be good; they might be tasteless, insipid and
unpleasant and upset the stomach. There is no
doubt that tastes and the faculty that perceives
them have been specially created for human

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