Chapter II: Patience and Gratefulness
purpose for the creation of each star in the sky. God instructs us to say: O our Lord, you have not created this in vain. He also says:
'I have not created the heavens and the earth and what is between them out of sports.' The world is like a man and everything in the world is like the organs of the body. As all the organs of the body help your body, so everything in the world help the world.
Everything in the word is the workmanship of God and as such God can be well understood from His wonderful creations. So food is perfected by the sun, moon, water, wind, star etc.
TRANSPORTATION OF FOOD: All the foods cannot be obtained from the same place. So God created merchants who travel all over the world and gather them according to the needs of a particular country. God made the love of wealth strong over them and for that they undertake arduous and hazardous journey to gather foodstuffs. In this act, sometimes boats are sunk and wealth is looted by robbers. So God taught them how to make boats and ships.
PURIFICATION OF FOOD STUFFS: Look to a piece of bread and look to what elements are necessary for getting a bread. At first field is cultivated and for that cows, bullocks and buffaloes and ploughing machines are necessary. Then weeds are plucked out and then seeds are sown. Then crops are reaped and thrashed out. Then bread is prepared when wheats are crushed and made powders. For this, many men, machines, irons, woods are necessary.
GIFT OF CREATION OF ANGELS: It has been stated that the angels come down to correct the Prophets and to show them the paths of guidance and to take revelations to them from God.
They are divided into three classes - (1) angels of the earth, (2)
angels of heaven and (3) angels for carrying the Divine Throne.
So look how God engaged the angels for procuring food for you and for your guidance. For every organ of yours, rather for every part of a tree, at least seven angels has been entrusted. It varies from seven to one hundred. They supply food to each vein and sinew as food does not move by itself but it is taken from one place to another by angels. Each angel has been assigned a function of his own and none interfers with the functions of another. The angels of sky help the angels of the earth and the angels of Throne help the angels of the sky. Above all, the Almighty helps them all.
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Question: Why is one angel not sufficient for all works?