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Quranic Wisdom

Spiritual Food

esus Christ has said: “Man cannot live by bread alone.”
J(Matthew 4:4) This is also a teaching of the Quran. Apart from
physical food, a person also needs spiritual food. Physical food
is needed for your body and spiritual food is necessary for your
intellectual development. Addressing the Prophet the Quran
says in the chapter Ta Ha (Ta Ha):
Do not regard with envy the worldly benefits We have
given some of them, for with these We seek only to
test them. The provision of your Lord is better and
more lasting. (20:131)

We take physical food through our digestive system and we
take spiritual food through thinking and observation. Both are
not two different items, in fact both are one and the same. In
the very items that we take as food there is spiritual content
also. We can extract this spiritual item through thinking and
contemplation.
For example, if you take some food like bread and rice or
vegetable and fruit, you should think of how it was possible that
soil was able to produce such beneficial items. Then you discover
that it was due to God’s blessing. This kind of thinking inculcates
love towards God Almighty. Acknowledging God Almighty, you
say: ‘O Lord you are so merciful and compassionate towards
mankind.’
Then, again you think that although these things were in
the earth, but were there in terms of potential. Who made this
potential into actuality? Then you realize that there are farmers,
agriculturists, horticulturalists and others who performed great

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