Everything that exists has a use to which it can be put. All things may be transformed in such a way as to serve man: cotton into fabric, trees into homes and their furnishings, minerals into tall buildings and computers, dead organic matter into plastics and fuels. Numerous plants serve as foodstuffs or pharmaceutical remedies while even poisons can be harnessed for some beneficial use (Botox anyone?). Is not this a token of the bounty and grace of an All-Mighty Creator?
We shall show them Our signs in the world and in themselves.
Qur'an 41:53
Having created the world and all that liveth and moveth therein, He, through the direct operation of His unconstrained and sovereign Will, chose to confer upon man the unique distinction and capacity to know Him and to love Him — a capacity that must needs be regarded as the generating impulse and primary purpose underlying the whole of creation... Upon the inmost reality of each and every created thing He hath shed the light of one of His names, and made it a recipient of the glory of one of His attributes. Upon the reality of man, however, He hath focused the radiance of all of His names and attributes and made it a mirror of His own Self. Alone of all created things, man hath been singled out for so great a favor, so enduring a bounty.
Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p.65
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