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Know that Allah brought you into existence from non-existence. Then, as kindness and favour, your Creator (Mûjid) elevated your existence from the lowest level of existence and brought you to the level of being a Muslim human being. All the levels of existence from your first movement until your present state, which passed through many different stages, are a ni’mah given to you. From each of those ni’mahs, a fruit and a colour are attached to you. You are like a necklace or a cluster on which the beads of ni’mah have been strung in excellent order, placed in a row, and you are a flower, which is adorned with ni’mahs from head to toe; you are an index of the level of the ni’mahs of Taâ’lâ.

All minds agreed upon that nonexistence does not require a real and effective cause (‘illah), whereas existence does. At every stage and level of existence, from being a particle to annihilation, you will be asked and questioned how you attained those ni’mahs, how you deserved them, and whether you offered shukr for them. No one with an iota of intelligence would ask a stone why it has not become a tree or a tree why it has not become a man.