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

about. Everything a person sees exists in Allah's knowledge and
has come to be by His will and happens for a definite reason. So,
when a believer looks up at the heavens with this in mind, he sees
that they are marvellously created. He understands that the truth of
the following verse is before his eyes: "We made the sky a pre-
served and protected roof …" (Surat al-Anbiya': 32)
The sky's function as a "protected roof" comes from its atmos-
phere and this atmosphere surrounds the globe and performs its
vital functions so that human beings survive. The atmosphere fil-
ters out rays that come from space and are dangerous for living

things; it vaporises both large and small mete-

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