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sign leading to faith. Knowing that God created the order in the
universe, they evaluate all living or non-living entities from that
perspective. For example, even nonbelievers are signs leading

to faith, for God revealed in the Qur’an that there will be such
people. Moreover, their unbelief, despite His clear existence,
is a means to increase the believers’ fear [and awareness] of
God and encourage them to thank Him for the gift of faith. In
terms of these signs, believers do not think only about the as-

tonishing features of trees, flowers, or animals, but also about
the facilities created by God (e.g., transport vehicles, telephones,
or computers) as more signs leading to faith. They know that

they all exist with God’s permission and thank Him for the
way in which they make life easier.
The tense, angry, weary, thoughtless, crude, and disre-
spectful behavior we see all around us comes from those peo-
ple who are unaware that God has created all things. However,

those who interpret everything as signs leading to faith and
duly think about these, grow and broaden in spiritual terms.
In the Qur’an, God compares people who lack spiritual

depth and understanding, as well as those who think along nar-
row lines and with simple logic, to the “Badawis”
(bedouins). These were nomadic Arabs, in the days of
our Prophet (May God bless him and grant him
peace), as opposed to urbanized Arabs. While they

had literary and aesthetic cultures, the bedouins
were an ignorant, hard, and crude-natured lot.
Having such a nature is a major obstacle to under-

standing and living by religion. That is why God
states: