IN SEARCH OF TRUTH

those who remember God, standing, sitting and on their sides, and ponder over the creation of the heavens and earth.(191 Al-Imran)

And in the earth are adjoining tracts and gardens of vines and sown fields and palm trees in clusters and otherwise all watered with one water; yet We make some of them to excel others in food. (4, Al-Raad)

And it is He who has made for you the stars, that you may thereby find the way in the darkness of land and sea (98, Al-Anam)

He sends down water from the heaven, so that the valleys flow in their measure. (17, Al-Raad)

He brings forth therewith crops of diverse hues, then they wither, and thou seest them turning yellow, then He makes them broken straw? (21, Al-Zumar)

Have they not seen the birds held in the atmosphere? (79. Al-Nahal)

And of His Signs is that He shows you lightning for fear and hope, and sends down water from the heaven, with which He revives the earth after it is dead. (24, Al-Rum)

And of His Signs are the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. (37, Hamim Sajda)

Hast thou not seen how thy Lord has stretched out the shadow? And had He willed, He would have made it still, then We made the sun to be its indicator;(45, Al-Furqan)

Has there come on Man a while of time when he was not a thing to be remembered?(1, Dahr)

and created you in pairs,(8, Al-Naba)

He who has made the earth a cradle for you and opened in it routes for you, and sent down water from heaven. And with it, (says He), We have brought forth diverse kinds of plants: (53, Taha)

And all will be arraigned before Us, altogether.(32, Yasin)

And of His Signs is that He created for you mates, out of yourselves, that you might repose in them, and He put love and mercy between you; in that are surely Signs for a people who ponder.(21, Al-Rum)

Mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul. (1, Annisa)

and the diversity of your languages and colours; in that are surely Signs for the men of knowledge.(22, Al-Rum)

and also in your selves; will you not see?(21, Al-Zariyat)

And of His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and such creatures that He has scattered abroad in them; and He is powerful to gather them when He will.(29, Al-Shura)

And for you in the cattle is a lesson. We give you to drink of that which is in their bellies between the dung and the blood, pure milk, pleasant to the drinkers. And of the fruits of the palms and the grapes, you take therefrom intoxicant and good provision. And thy Lord revealed to the bee: `make houses in the mountains, in the trees and in what people build; then eat of all the fruits, and follow the set ways of thy Lord'. There comes forth out of their bellies a beverage of different hues having healing power for mankind. In that is surely a Sign for a people who ponder.(66-69, AL-Nahal)

Now let Man look at his food. We poured out water abundantly,then split the earth asunder, and made to grow in it grain, and vines and vegetables, and olives and palms, and gardens, dense and lofty, and fruits and pastures, a provision for you and the cattle.(24-32, Abas)

And the things He has scattered for you in the earth have different colours; in that is surely a Sign for a people who pay heed. And it is He who has subjected the sea, that you may eat out of it fresh flesh, and bring forth out of it ornaments that you wear; and thou seest the ships ploughing through it. (13-14, Al-Nahal)

And how many a Sign there is in the heavens and the earth that they pass by, turning away from it.(105, Yousaf)

We shall show them Our Signs in the horizons and in themselves, till it is clear to them that it is the truth; but does it not suffice regarding thy Lord, that He is witness over everything?(53, Hamim Sajda)

Say, `O God, the Master of the kingdom, Thou givest the kingdom to whom Thou wilt, and Thou takest away the kingdom from whom Thou wilt; and Thou exaltest whom Thou wilt, and Thou abasest whom Thou wilt; in Thy hand is the good; Thou art powerful over everything. Thou makest the night to enter into the day, and Thou makest the day to enter into the night, and Thou bringest forth the living from the dead, and Thou bringest forth the dead from the living, and Thou providest whom Thou wilt without reckoning.'(26-27, Al-Imran)

Know that the present life is only a sport and a diversion, and an adornment and a cause for boasting among you, and a rivalry in wealth and children. (20, Al-Hadid)
Adorned for men is the love of lusts women, sons, heaped-up heaps of gold and silver, branded horses, cattle and tillage; those are the goods of the present life.(14, Al-Imran)

The likeness of the present life is only as water that We send down from the heaven, with which mingle the plants of the earth, whereof men and cattle eat; till, when the earth takes its glitter and adorns itself, and its people think that they have power over it, Our command comes upon it by night or by day, and We make it stubble, as if nothing was there yesterday. (24, Younas)

But have they not seen that God outspreads and straitens provision for whom He will? (37, Al-Rum)

And if God had expanded the provision for His servants, they would have rebelled in the earth. (27, Al-Shura)

And how may a city, that exulted in their insolent ease, We have destroyed. (58, Al-Qasas)

And how many a generation We have destroyed before them! Dost thou perceive anyone of them, or hear of them a wispier?(98, Maryam)

like those before you, who were stronger in power and more abundant in wealth and children than you are. (69, Al-Tauba)

And the Cry seized the wrong-doers, and they lay crouching in their homes,(67, Hud)
And for every community there is a term; then, when their term comes, they do not put it back by a moment, nor put it forward.(34, Al-Araf)

Have they not journeyed in the land and seen how was the end of those before them? They were more numerous and stronger in might and in leaving traces in the earth than these people, but what they earned did not avail them.(82, Al-Mumin)

And there is a ban on any city that We have destroyed, that they shall not return.(95, Al-Anbiya)

How many gardens and fountains they left,(25, Al-Dukhan)

now, these are their habitations that have not been inhabited after them but little; and Ourselves are the inheritors (58, Al-Qasas)

`Do not groan today; you shall not receive any help from Us.(65, Al-Muminun)
And (remember) when We delivered you from Pharaoh's folk who afflicted you with evil punishment, slaughtering your sons and letting your women live; and in that was a big trial from your Lord.(49, Al-Baqra)

And when he turns away, he labours in the earth to create disorder and destroy the tillage and the stock. (205, Al-Baqra)

Say `He is able to send forth on you punishment from above you or from under your feet, or to confuse you in sects and make you taste the violence of one another;' see, how We turn about the Signs that they may understand.(65, Al-Anam)

the kings, when they enter a city, disorder it and make its mighty people abased, and like that they do.(34, Al-Namal)

and take to strong buildings as if you will live forever?(129, Al-Shuara)

And have they not journeyed in the land and beheld how was the end of those before them, though they were stronger than them in might? And God is not such that anything in the heavens or in the earth can frustrate Him; surely He is Knowing, Powerful.(44, Al-Fatir)

And We made the people that were oppressed to inherit the east and the west of the land We had blessed. (137, Al-Araaf)

Surely in that are Signs for the observant.(75, Al-Hijr)

Praise be to God; He shall show you His Signs and you will recognise them; and thy Lord is not heedless of the things you do.'(93, Al-Namal)