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30 UNAWARENESS: A SLY THREAT

The perfectly ordered systems and creatures that Allah
has created, together with all that they teach us about reality,
are beyond the vision of unaware people; they can only be
appreciated by believers who use their intelligence. Intelligent,
aware believers carefully observe everything in their vicinity
and ponder deeply on what they see. In the Qur’an, Allah
gives the examples of a mosquito, a honeybee, a spider, and
many other creatures He has made to encourage people to
think about and appreciate His knowledge, power, and
artistry. However, only those believers with intelligence can
know their qualities and understand the perfection of living
things and their qualities based on what they produce. From
these, they can appreciate His power and artistry.
As for unaware individuals, their irrationality causes them
to imagine that the creatures they see around them every day
are simple and ordinary. To them, a bee just buzzes around
and lands on flowers, and a mosquito is just a blood-sucking
pest:

The worst of beasts in Allah’ sight are the deaf and
dumb (people) who have no intellect. (Surat al-Anfal: 22)

Another important aspect of such people is that since
they cannot discriminate between rationality and irrationality,
they imagine that they are rational and that it is the rational
people who are irrational:

When they are told: “Believe in the way that the people
believe,” they exclaim: “What! Are we to believe in the
way that fools believe?” No indeed! They are the fools,
but they do not know it. (Surat al-Baqara: 13)