When it is flowing and turning, it is alive.

When it is flowing and turning, it is alive. Life and death exist in both the sensory and in the meaning. "And He is the Mighty, the Forgiving." Whether or not man is content with his life does not change Allah's station with him. Through afflictions, growth of wisdom blossoms in him. Man learns to solicit forgiveness from the Ghafur (the Forgiving). The recogni­tion of one's transgressions and mistakes is in itself a door to for­giveness.

If one knows one's faults, if one has seen them and experi­enced them, then one is on the way to being forgiven. It follows that if one is in awareness, one will be unlikely to repeat past mistakes. 3 Who created the seven heavens one above another; you see no 'incongruity in the creation of the Beneficent God; then look again, can you see any disorder? 4 Then turn back the eye again and again; your look shall come back to you confused while it is fatigued.

The kingdom of Allah is manifest in seven layers, seven different phases or modes of heaven. Each layer is placed upon another, in­ visibly connected yet retaining its own characteristics. It is also found amongst the ahadith (prophetic traditions) and the sayings of the Imams that the earth has seven layers. In fact, there is a common supplication in which it is said: Rabbu-s-samawati-s-sab`i wa rabbu-l­ aradini-s-sab'i, the Lord of the seven heavens and the Lord of the seven earths.

"You see no incongruity in the creation of the Beneficent God." Futur is from fatara, to cleave, split open. Fitra is the original crack-the origin of man's rise to life. The Rahman (the Merciful) encompasses everything under His rahma (compassion). Allah's rahma is upon all creation, while His rahm is upon the mu'min (believer). Under the Rahman, the Merciful, there is nothing in creation that cannot be placed. There is no disjointedness within it.

Everything makes sense to man if he develops the right sight and abandons clumsy judgement. Allah says "Then turn back the eye again and again," because though man looks often, he does so without insight. The Qur'an challenges man to look again in order to see if he can find any fault. The more one looks, the more one discovers the perfection of what appears to be layer upon layer of the laws and sensory connec­tions which hold the cosmos together. Doubt arises in man when he begins to reflect.

At first, his reflec­tions are unclear and do not connect with his core.