Thus, the signs within nature are regarded as verses of a...

Thus, the signs within nature are regarded as verses of a cosmic or natural holy book, and thus nature itself a holy book-or more specifically, the cosmic “Qur’an of creation” ( al-Qur’an al-takwīnī ).13 Hence, with the realization that holy verses are not just available in scripture-but in nature, the cosmos and the soul as well-it is humanity’s responsibility to generally approach nature with the same reverence it would a holy book.

Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, and the ships that run in the sea with that which profits men, and the water that God sends down from the cloud, then gives life with it to the earth after its death and spreads in it all animals, and the changing of the winds and the clouds made subservient between the heaven and the earth, there are signs for a people who understand. 14 Previous…