3rd Stopping Place 4th Truth The Universal Manifestation Of Compassionateness And Providerhood

THE FOURTH TRUTH,

which forms the Thirty-Third Degree:

the Truth of Compassionateness and Bestowal of Provision

That is, the giving, over the whole face of the globe, within the earth, in the air above it and the ocean around it, to all animate beings, especially those endowed with spirit, and among them especially the impotent, the weak and the young, all of their necessary sustenance, material and immaterial, in the most solicitous manner, deriving it from dry and rude soil, from solid, bonelike dry pieces of wood, and in the case of the most delicate of all forms of sustenance, from between blood and urine, at the proper time, in orderly fashion, without any omission or confusion, in front of our eyes, by an unseen hand.

اِنَّ اللّٰهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَت۪ينُ

Yes, the verse,

Allah is the Provider, the firm possessor of strength, {[*]: Qur'an, 51:58.}

وَمَا مِنْ دَٓابَّةٍ فِى الْاَرْضِ اِلَّا عَلَى اللّٰهِ رِزْقُهَا وَيَعْلَمُ مُسْتَقَرَّهَا وَمُسْتَوْدَعَهَا كُلٌّ ف۪ى كِتَابٍ مُب۪ينٍ

restricts to Allah the task of sustaining and providing, and the verse,

There is no moving thing on earth but depends on Allah for its sustenance; He knows its resting-place and storage-place; all is in a book perspicuous {[*]: Qur'an, 11:6.}

provides a dominical guarantee and pledge to furnish provision for all men and animals. Similarly, the verse,

وَكَاَيِّنْ مِنْ دَٓابَّةٍ لَا تَحْمِلُ رِزْقَهَا اَللّٰهُ يَرْزُقُهَا وَاِيَّاكُمْ وَ هُوَ السَّم۪يعُ الْعَل۪يمُ

The beasts do not carry their sustenance; Allah sustains them and you, and He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing, {[*]: Qur'an, 29:60.}

establishes and proclaims that it is Allah Who guarantees and provides for all impotent, powerless, weak and wretched creatures that are unable to secure their own sustenance, in an unexpected fashion, indeed from the Unseen or even out of nothing; it is He for example Who provides for insects on the ocean bed and their young. This proclamation is directed in particular to those men who worship causes and are unaware that it is He Who bestows provision from behind the veil of causality. Numerous other verses of the Qur'an and innumerable pieces of cosmic evidence unanimously demonstrate that it is the compassionateness of a single Glorious Provider that nurtures all animate beings.