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that Allah sends down rain to water their crops, gives them
wealth and children, creates rivers and gardens with abundant
yield, and that He is the Sole Possessor of every blessing that
they enjoy. In order to draw them nearer to the concept of reli-
gion, he strove to explain to his people, who could not truly
grasp Islam's beauty and their need for religion, that the
worldly interests to which they were greedily attached also
were under Allah's control. Their grasp of these basic facts
would lay the proper ground for a better understanding of the
hereafter's existence and Islam's commands.

Explaining the Signs of Creation
One method Allah tells believers to use while communicating
Islam to their people is to acquaint their people with the signs of
creation. Many prophets mentioned in the Qur'an led their peo-
ple think about these signs. The Prophet Nuh (as) was such a
prophet:
Do you not see how He created seven heavens in layers and
placed the moon as a light in them, and made the sun a blazing
lamp? Allah caused you to grow from the soil, (and) then will re-
turn you to it and bring you out again. Allah has spread the
ground out as a carpet for you so that you could use its wide val-
leys as roadways. (Surah Nuh: 15-20)
These signs of creation hold so much and elaborate informa-
tion that they could fill many volumes. Reflecting upon the
seven layers making up the sky and their benefits to earth's liv-
ing inhabitants and ecological system, the sun's and moon's in-
fluence on the seasons, climates, the alteration of night and day,
and human life will broaden people's horizons and eventually
add to their wisdom and faith. Pondering over the catastrophes
that the slightest change in these systems could cause serves the