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The Master of the Kingdom
Say: “O Allah! Master of the Kingdom! You give sover-
eignty to whoever You will and take sovereignty from who-
ever You will. You exalt whoever You will and abase
whoever You will. All good is in Your hands. You have power
over all things.” (Surah Al ‘Imran, 3:26)
When you look around, everything that you see has an owner.
The chair on which you sit is made up atoms, each one of which was
created by Allah. A flower grows by combining such favorable cir-
cumstances as sunlight, water, and so on, all of which are granted by
Allah. The sea lying beyond your window and all its inhabitants
exist only because Allah wills them to exist.
Even your body is under the sway of Allah, Who created you.
All of your organs and veins, as well as your nervous system and
cells, are works of our Lord’s superior wisdom and intelligence.
None of the things were desired by you and then brought into exis-
tence by you. Once you opened your eyes to this world, you saw
both the flawless system in your body and in the universe.
However, you did not have any of them before, and you could not
have acquired them through your own will in the latter part of your
life. This fact surely holds true for all human beings. This being the
case, Allah is the Lord and Creator of everything.
Despite this obvious fact, some people disregard all of these
and, ignoring Allah’s clear existence, assume that they own all of
these things. Despite all of our weaknesses, along with their feelings
of superiority, they grow arrogant and attempt to deny our Creator.

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