Blessings

SURAH IBRAHIM

34- He has given you everything you have asked Him for.

He gives eyes and ears and fingers. Bowls and light and electricity … The list goes on for ever.

If you tried to number Allah’s blessings, you could never count them. Man is indeed wrongdoing, ungrateful.

Allah says they pay no heed. Even though I bestow all these blessings and they live in a tiny space inside their brains. Allah constantly shows them images and sounds and bestows blessings and feelings. But they are heedless. They are ungrateful, that is what Allah is saying.

We see images and hear sounds in an area the size of a lentil in our brains; in the place called consciousness, that is where we live. Allah shows us fresh air and the sounds of cars and the people selling things in the street and people fighting. Allah gives us images in this world, but heedless people still insist on not reflecting on them. They refuse with all their might. Allah constantly gives them things to think about, but they do not. That is when Allah sends down afflictions, disease, to make them think. And still they do not. Allah creates death. They soon see death, but still do not wish to think. Allah produces a terrible end in death, so they will think. The smell that arises with death is horrible, the most disgusting in the world. The sight of death is terrifying. The body’s eyes pop out, the intestines gape out of its mouth, women’s wombs come out, their eyes turn into jelly and their hair turns into filthy wool, their flesh and bones fall apart. That happens very fast.