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Quranic Wisdom

The same is referred to in the Quran as rizq-e-rabb (20:131),
that is, the provision of God.
Daily bread and divine provision are not mysterious terms.
They are derived through a well-known method that is referred
to in the Quran as tawassum (15:75). That is, to draw spiritual
lessons from material events or experiences. Anyone who wants
to live as a spiritual person must develop himself as a person
who can engage in tawassum. He must enable himself to draw
spiritual lessons from the apparently non-spiritual experiences
of daily life.

The Missing Item of Creation

n its Chapter 103, the Quran declares that time is a witness
Ithat man is in loss. (103:1-2). Here, “time” means history. It
is a sweeping remark on the whole history of mankind. That is,
everyone’s case was a case of failure. There are many persons in
history who acquired great wealth, political power, fame and all
kinds of good things of life, but no one was in a position to say
that he achieved what he wanted to achieve. There is no record
in history that refutes this remark of the Quran.
Man is born with great desires and ambitions. Everyone tries
to fulfil his or her desires and achieve his or her ambitions. But
it is seen that everyone fails. A person’s greatest urge is to achieve
complete fulfilment, but he dies with his desires unfulfilled.

It is not only the concern of human beings; more than that it
is a question mark on creation itself. The Quran claims that the
universe is a perfect universe. To this effect the Quran says in the
chapter Al-Mulk (The Kingdom):
God created seven heavens one above the other in

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