A Treasury of The Qur’an
THE COSMIC CALL
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THE COSMIC CALL
It is God who splits the grain and the date stone. He
brings forth the living from the dead, and the dead
from the living. Such is God. How then can you
turn away from Him? He splits the sky into dawn.
He has made the night for a repose and the sun and
the moon for a reckoning. Such is the ordinance of
God, the Mighty, the Wise. It is He who has created
for you the stars, that you may be guided by them
in the darkness of land and sea. We have made
plain our signs for people who understand. It is He
who sent down water from the sky. With it We
bring forth the shoot of every plant and then We
have brought forth its green leaf and from it close-
compounded grain; and out of the date-palm, from
its pollen, dates thick-clustered, ready to the hand;
and gardens of grapes, olives and pomegranates,
like and unlike one another. Look upon their fruits
when they fructify and ripen. Surely in all this are
signs for people who believe. Yet they ascribe as
partners unto Him the jinn, though He created
them, and they impute unto Him sons and
daughters without any knowledge. Glory be to Him
and exalted be He above what they describe. The
