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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

TAKING AN INTEREST IN THE SUBJECTS GOD
POINTS US TOWARDS AND WANTS US TO EXPLORE
AND CONTEMPLATE
Will they not ponder the Qur’an? If it had been from other than
God, they would have found many inconsistencies in it. (Surat an-
Nisa’, 82)
Do they not ponder these words? Has anything come to them that
did not come to their ancestors, the previous peoples? (Surat al-
Mu’minun, 68)
It is a Book We have sent down to you, full of blessing, so let people

of intelligence ponder its Signs and take heed. (Surah Sad, 29)
Have they not seen how God brings creation out of nothing, then
reproduces it? That is easy for God. Say: ‘Travel about the earth and
see how He brought creation out of nothing. Then later God will
bring about the next existence. God has power over all things.’ (Surat
al-Anqabut, 19-20)

Do those who disbelieve not see that the heavens and the earth
were sewn together and then We unstitched them and that We
made from water every living thing? So will they not believe? (Surat
al-Anbiya’, 30)
Have they not looked at the camel–how it was created? and at the
sky — how it was raised up? And (have they not looked) at the
mountains–how they were embedded? and at the earth — how it
was smoothed out? (Surat al-Ghashiyah, 17-20)

No wonder you are surprised as they laugh with scorn! (Surat al-
Saffat, 12)
Have they not looked at the sky above them: how We structured it
and made it beautiful and how there are no fissures in it? And the

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