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In the Name of Allah, The All-Merciful and Most Merciful

smell, you would be rather uncomfortable. Another interest-
ing and important fact is that water, even though it evapo-
rates at low temperatures, has no smell. So, there would be no
difference between a dry rose and one that had been recently
watered and still had drops of water on it. In other words, the
rose’s natural scent would not be destroyed. And the water
vapor in the air would make the smell stronger. For example,

water molecules that evaporate after a rainfall raise particles
of smell from flowers into the air and help these pleasant
scents permeate the surroundings.
The variety of smells is a wonderful gift from Allah. It is
still unknown how many scents exist in nature, for we can
never know the number of different molecules. Attempts
have been made to categorize scents, but

there is such an extraordinary variety of
smells that no satisfactory grouping

If we could not smell, we could
take no pleasure from our food or
drink or know what a lovely scent
was. We are aware of this impor-
tant blessing because the All-
Merciful and Most Merciful has en-
abled us to smell.

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