Page 149 - Jannah: The Garden from the Qur'an and Hadith

wants whenever He wants without
depending on any logical pattern and
without the need for any substance to
create from. People should not be de-
ceived by the fact that in this world
everything appears to depend on certain
causes and natural laws. As the Creator
of all causes, Allah is completely free of
them. In the Garden creation will be freed
from its need for causes, and so a fruit
picked from a tree will immediately be re-
placed by another, without any loss or de-
crease. Allah creates both causes and effects.
For example, when we look at the shade un-

der a tree, we know it is caused by the angle
of the sun’s rays. Light and shade are effects
of the sun, but Allah makes the sun the cause
of light and shade. This is revealed in the
Qur’an:
Do you not see how your Lord stretches
out shadows? If He had wished He could
have made them stationary. Then We ap-
point the sun to be the pointer to them.
Then We draw them back to Ourselves in
gradual steps. (Surat al-Furqan: 45-46)

It is as a result of the artistry of Allah that
everything in this world is created in a seeming
cause-effect relationship. He can create anything
in a moment and in the form that He wants, or