The First Example Is Like This:
The traveller, who had come into the world solely to find his Creator and become acquainted with Him, said to his reason: “We have asked everything concerning our Creator and have received perfectly satisfying answers. In order to learn about the Sun one has to ask the Sun itself, so now we shall make a further journey in order to find and become acquainted with our Creator through the manifestations of His sacred attributes of knowledge, will, and power, and through His visible works, and through the manifestations of His names.” So he entered the world. Then the people of misguidance, a second current, embarked on the ship of the earth. The traveller put on the spectacles of the science and philosophy that does not follow the wisdom of the Qur’an, and looking in accordance with the programme of the geography that does not read the Qur’an, saw that:
The earth was travelling seventy times faster than a cannon ball, covering a twenty‑thousand-year distance in one year in an orbit in the midst of the infinite void. It had taken upon itself myriad species of wretched, helpless living beings. He realized that if it confused its way even for a minute, or if a stray star collided with it, it would disintegrate, pouring all those wretched creatures into nothingness and non-existence. Perceiving the awesome calamity of the currents of Not those who have received Your anger, nor those who have gone astray, and the suffocating darkness of Or [the unbelievers’ state] is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, he exclaimed: “Alas! What have we done? Why did we board this terrible ship? Is there any way we can be saved from it?” Then smashing the spectacles of blind philosophy, he joined the current of Those whom You have blessed. Suddenly the wisdom of the Qur’an came to his assistance. Giving to his reason a telescope which shows reality, it told him to look through it. He looked and saw the name of Sustainer of the Heavens and Earth rising like a sun in the constellation of It is He who has made the earth subservient to you, so traverse you its tracts, and eat of its sustenance. The Sustainer had made the earth an orderly, safe ship, and filled it with living beings together with their sustenance, causing it to journey around the sun in the seas of the universe for numerous benefits and instances of wisdom, bringing the produce of the seasons to those who wished for sustenance. Two angels called Thawr and Hut had been appointed captains of the ship, and they took it on its voyage through the magnificent dominical regions for the enjoyment of the Glorious Creator’s creatures and guests. The traveller understood that this showed the reality of Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth, making known his Creator through this name. With all his heart and spirit he exclaimed: All praise be to Allah, the Sustainer of All the Worlds, and joined the group of Those whom You have blessed.