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BASIC TENETS OF ISLAM

A person so disposed recognizes the signs of Allah's
existence everywhere he looks, perceiving Him for His true
might. Believers keep their minds continually occupied with
remembrance of Allah, while the majority of humanity spend

their lives without a thought to these facts. In a verse of the
Qur'an, the ideal behaviour of a Muslim is related as follows:
... those who remember Allah, standing, sitting and
lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the
heavens and the earth: "Our Lord, You have not created
this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from
the punishment of the Fire." (Surah Al 'Imran: 191)

ALLAH'S INFINITE GREATNESS AND POWER

Allah created the order of the universe in superb detail to
allow man to grasp His greatness. A verse referring to this
order reads, "... so that you might know that Allah has power
over all things and that Allah encompasses all things in His
knowledge." (Surat at-Talaq: 12). Faced with the sublimity of

the details of this order, man becomes in awe, recognizing that
Allah's wisdom, knowledge and might is infinite.
So expansive is Allah's knowledge that what for us is
"infinite" is in His Sight already ended. Every event that has
taken place since the creation of time, until deep into eternity,
was predetermined and ended in Allah's Sight. (See
Timelessness and The Reality of Fate, by Harun Yahya) This is
related in the Qur'an as follows:

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