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Quranic Wisdom

response by a man that will be mainly responsible for earning
him a seat in Paradise. Acknowledging these divine blessings
inculcates a positive personality in a person, and it is this positive
personality that will be held deserving of being settled in Paradise.

What is required of man is to consciously
acknowledge these blessings, without any compulsion.
Acknowledgment means deep appreciation of a gift.

The first blessing is that God created man and gave him a
unique personality. This kind of personality is an exceptionally
rare gift to man. Nothing in the universe shares in with this
gift. The second blessing is given here in terms of the modes
of transport, or in other words, means of communication. This
is mentioned here as symbolic of the various other blessings of
this kind. That is, it refers to all those blessings which have been
given to man in the form of the life support system, both in the
form of movable and immovable things. The third blessing is
mentioned in these words: “He creates what you do not know.”
This third blessing was referred to here as a prediction. When in
the seventh century the Quran was revealed this blessing had not
come into existence; it was to appear in the future. This blessing
constitutes the various components of the industrial civilization,
which was present in nature in the potential sense at the time of
the revelation of the Quran. After a long process of thousand
years this blessing became an actuality, and we now know it as the
civilization produced by the industrial and scientific revolution.
God Almighty is the giver of these blessings and man is the
recipient. What is required of man is to consciously acknowledge
these blessings, without any compulsion. Acknowledgment
means deep appreciation of a gift. This kind of acknowledgment
is the greatest human quality. It shapes the entire personality of

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