Our Lord is the One Who has put billions of pieces of information in a place so small that our eyes cannot even see it.
Allah is the One Who has created us, our eyes, our hair, and our feet.
He is also the Creator of our families, parents, brothers and sisters, friends and teachers.
Allah is the One Who has created the food that we love for us, chocolates, cakes and candies, the fruits and vegetables that make us healthy and strong. If Allah had not created it, we would not have known what chocolate tasted like.
Allah has also given us the sense of taste and smell. If He had not given us these faculties, we would not have been able to taste the things that we eat. It would have been the same whether we ate a potato or a cake. Allah hasn't just created delicious and beautifully scented foods, He has also given us the faculties that will allow us to enjoy them.
You like some things, and you enjoy them and think of them as fun. It could be a dessert that you enjoy eating, a game that you enjoy playing, or an outing with people you love. You must never forget that Allah is the One Who makes it possible for you to enjoy such things.
Since Allah has great mercy for you, He always gives you pleasant and beautiful things.
To begin with, you did not exist. Just think, you were nowhere before you were conceived. You were nothing. Allah created you. He made you out of nothing.
Then we must be grateful to Allah for each moment of our lives. In everything that we enjoy and love, we must remember Allah, and say, "O Allah I am forever grateful to you for all your offerings." If we come across a situation that we do not like, we should again pray to Allah, because He is the only One Who can put things right.
Allah always hears our prayers and responds to them, because He always knows what is in our thoughts. While reading this book, for instance, you are thinking of some things, but if you do not say them aloud, no one at home will know what you are thinking. Allah, however, knows your every thought and sees you all the time. Even when you think you are alone, Allah sees you and knows everything that you do.
For this reason, good people, even when they are by themselves, do not think, "Well no one can see me now" and then do wrong things. They know that Allah still sees and hears them even when no one else is around.
The drawing on the right is a cartoon of Darwin, the founder of the theory of evolution. This cartoon indicates that the theory of evolution has collapsed. The theory of evolution in our time has taken quite a beating just like Darwin in the cartoon.
The Miracles of Smell and Taste...
In addition, now recall all the delightful tastes you have ever experienced. Those of various foods, desserts, meats, fish, vegetables, soups, salads, cakes, pies, fruits, beverages, jams, ice creams, candies and the like . . . and especially when you were hungry!
Everyone has lasting, permanent memories of tastes and smells. Even thinking about some of them for merely a moment is enough to awaken a sense of excitement. No doubt, each and every one of these delights is an incomparable blessing worth your consideration.
In the Qur'an, God makes the following statement about the blessings He has created:
If you tried to number God's blessings, you could never count them. God is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nahl: 18)
In addition to these blessings listed here, God has also created the senses of smell and taste within our bodies to let us perceive and take pleasure from them all, and has placed these systems at our service as a manifestation of His boundless compassion. It is only through these systems, of such importance to us, that you can experience the wealth of the worlds of odors and flavors. Were it not for them, such concepts such as sweetness and pungency would have no meaning for you.
To understand their importance, imagine if you could not perceive the smells and tastes of what you eat and drink. You would be unable to enjoy the scent and flavor of a strawberry, for example, and would even be unaware of what a strawberry is really like.
You have been using your senses of smell and taste ever since you first came into the world, and can now perceive tens of thousands of scents and flavors with no difficulty. That is because you possess magnificent systems that make this possible. Your senses of smell and taste work faultlessly and tirelessly on your behalf, throughout your entire lifetime. What is more, you have paid nothing for them, have received no specialized training and make no effort at all in order to make use of them.
Of course, these facts we are discussing call for prolonged reflection. In the light of them, all men and women of reason and good conscience need to ask themselves the following question: How did the smell and taste mechanisms they possess come into being?
Medical and biological textbooks on the subject tell us that we owe our perceptions of smell and taste to our noses, tongues and brains. It is true, of course that we perceive flavors and odors by means of these organs. Yet another point here is ignored, whether consciously or otherwise. The question that's generally overlooked and that really needs to be answered is this: To whom do we owe the existence of our noses, tongues and brains?
Most people think that it is sufficient to know that they smell with their noses and taste with their tongues, and are not concerned with the intricate details. Yet this is a serious mistake to make. Taste and smell are inseparable, essential elements of everyone's life, and it is terribly heedless for anyone aware of that to ignore the significant details that these senses present.
No doubt we owe these wonderful blessings, as we do absolutely everything else, to God, the Lord of the worlds. When we examine the systems of taste and smell, you can see how these flawless mechanisms constitute astonishing proofs of creation. The aim of this book is to set out the proofs of creation in these systems, to help you consider God's limitless might and knowledge, and properly comprehend the innumerable blessings bestowed on us by our Lord. At the same time, we will yet again demonstrate the irrational and illogical nature of the theory of evolution, which maintains that all these marvelous systems are merely the product of chance.
The flawlessness in God's creation is described with these terms in the Qur'an:
He is God—the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form. To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in the heavens and earth glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Surat al-Hashr: 24)
Allah is Near to whoever supplicates Him and the necessary means for answering Du'aa [supplication].
Allah Almighty says in the Qur'an:
"And when My slaves ask you (O Muhammad) concerning Me, then (answer them), I am indeed Near (to them by My Knowledge). I respond to the invocations of the supplicant when he calls on Me (without any mediator or intercessor). So let them obey Me and believe in Me, so that they may be led aright" [Qur'an 2:186].
The above verse was revealed as an answer to a question addressed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) by some of his Companions (may Allah be pleased with them). They asked him: "Oh Messenger of Allah! Is our Lord near to us, so we can secretly talk to Him [munaja], or He is far, so we should call upon Him [loudly]?" Thereupon Allah Almighty revealed this verse: "And when My slaves ask you (O Muhammad) concerning Me, then (answer them), I am indeed near (to them by My Knowledge) "
This is because Allah is The Watcher, The Witness Who knows what is in the hearts [the secret] and that which is more hidden; He knows the treacherous (look) of the eyes and whatever the hearts conceals. Allah is Near to whoever supplicates him and immediately responds as He says "I respond to the invocations of the supplicant when he calls on Me".for more