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Man must use these strengths and abilities or else he will prevent himself from achieving their blessings. The power of thought is the best ability and the best blessing that Allah gave man. This power is what separates man from animal. In the Qurān it says that man is respected.[^2] This respect comes from the power of thought. Man will reach the high status that he was created for if he uses this power, but if he refrains from using it he will become lower than animals.

The Qurān answers the question about why some people go to Hell from the tongue of those who are in the Hellfire. They said: “If we listened to the warnings and used our power of thought we would not be in the Hellfire.”[^3] Man must think about what he was created from so that he can understand his God.

He will see the great power of creation when he realizes that he was only a drop of water which changed into a blood clot which changed into bones and flesh and then his spirit was blown into him. One must ask the following questions when he grows up and is able to use his intellect: what was I and what have I become? It Is Impossible For Something To Come Into Existence Without A Creator The first thought: Is it possible for something to come into existence by itself?

Everything that has been created has a creator. The late Sayyid Ibn Tāūs writes in the book Kashf al-Mahajja : “The thought that every thing that has been created has a creator is in man’s divine disposition ( fitrat ). From the days where he is able to use his power of thought he knows that every effect has a cause.” We will use a two-year-old baby as an example for this. Suppose a baby is sitting down and does not know that you are behind him, then you drop a toy over his shoulder.

Before the baby takes the toy he will look behind him at the person who put it there. He does this because he knows that there was nothing there and now something appeared and nothing can appear without a cause. This is one of the self-evident truths.