The Bee
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.[16:70]
It is God who creates you and takes your souls at death; and of you there are
some who are sent back to a feeble age, so that they know nothing after having known
(much): for God is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.
* v.70 : Besides the mystery and beauty of the many processes going on in the working of Allah’s Creation, there is the wonderful life of man himself on this earth; how he is created as a child; how he grows in intelligence and knowledge; and how his soul is taken back and his body suffers dissolution. In some cases he lives so long that he falls into a feeble old age like a second childhood; he forgets what he learnt and seems almost to go back in Time. Is not all this wonderful, and evidence of the Knowledge and Power of Allah?
* Our attention having been called to the remarkable transformations in life and nature, by which the Knowledge and Power of Allah work out His beneficient Plan for His creatures, we are reminded that man at best is but a feeble creature, but for the grace of Allah, We then pass on in the next Section to the differences in the gifts which men themselves enjoy, distinguishing them into so many categories. How much greater is the difference between the created things and their Creator?