2.38. SILENCE AND REFLECTION (to be continued)

God says

Verily in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the succession of night and day there are indeed messages for all who are endowed with insight (and) who remember God when they stand , and when they sit, and when they lie down to sleep, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth: …. Q3:190.191

Will they not, then, try to understand this Qur’an? … Q4:82
*A reference to the hypocrites of Madina, in the time of the Prophet, and -- by implication – the hypocritical “admirers” and half-hearted followers of Islam of all times.
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He it is who has made the sun a [source of] radiant light and the moon a light [reflected], and has determined for it phases so that you might know how to compute the years and to measure [time]. None of this has God created without [an inner] truth. Clearly does He spell out these messages unto people of [innate knowledge]: for, verily, in the alternating of night and day, and in all that God has created in the heavens and on earth there are messages indeed for people who are conscious of Him! -- Q.10:5,6
*Lit., “God has not created this otherwise than in accordance with truth” – i.e., to fulfill a definite purpose in consonance with His planning wisdom (Zamakhshari, Baghawi, Razi): implying that everything in the universe – whether existent or potential, concrete or abstract – is meaningful, and nothing is “accidental”. Cf.3:191 – “O our Sustainer! Thou has created [nothing of] this without meaning and purpose”; and 38:7 – “ We have not created heaven and earth and all that is between them without meaning and purpose, as is the surmise of those who are bent on denying the truth”.

The parable of the life of this world is but that of rain which We send down from the sky, and which is absorbed by the plants of the earth whereof men and animals draw nourishment, until – when the earth has assumed its artful adornment and has been embellished, and they who dwell on it believe that they have gained mastery over it* -- there comes down upon it Our judgment, by night or by day, and We cause it to become [like] a field mown down, as if there had been no yesterday.**

Prophet said

“He who keeps silence will be safe* ”-- H: Ahmed and Tirmizi. N: Abdullah-b-Amr.
* As it is in silence that one reflects and also is saved from frivolous talk.