Page 753 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

All the acts performed by a
human being belong to God.
For example, a child's being
able to read, a project real-
ized by an architect, a scien-
tist's discovery, a meal
cooked in the kitchen, an
artist's work... It is God Who
has created all of these
things and brings them to be.

someone who throws a stone, for example, really thinks that he is throwing it himself. However, a person
who is a shadow being cannot perform the act of throwing, but God makes him feel as if he is perform-

ing the act. As a result of the wonderful perfection in God's creation, a person senses this feeling in-
tensely and actually thinks that he is holding the stone, drawing back his arm to exert strength for speed
and throwing it.
Human beings live at every moment dependent on God and, whether they know it or not, or whether

they accept it or not, they are subject to God. God reveals this in this verse:
Everyone in heaven and earth prostrates to God willingly or unwillingly, as do their shadows in the morn-
ing and the evening. (Surat ar-Ra'd: 15)

Whoever you know, who lives or has lived in this world, in the present or in the past, wherever he
may be, whatever he may possess, or no matter how stubborn a denier he may be, this reality does not

change for him or for anyone. Every human being is subject to God's will, every person is a shadow being
created from the breath of God's Spirit. Anyone who knows this finds it impossible to accept praise for
his wealth, knowledge, title or reputation; nor can he accept adulation for his place or position in society
or success in his profession. Those who are still arrogant despite this are in fact completely powerless.
After God has revealed that the person who thinks he has thrown the stone has not really thrown it, but

that it was God Himself who threw it, it is unfathomable ignorance for anyone to think that he deserves
credit for any human success.
In this way God tests and trains every human being. Today those who cannot understand or accept

this obvious reality will, when they are raised from the dead, see everything in its true light and under-
stand that their own strength avails for nothing:
The metaphor of those who reject their Lord is that their actions are like ashes scattered by strong winds
on a stormy day. They have no power at all over anything they have earned. That is extreme misguidance.

(Surah Ibrahim: 18)

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