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رَبِّ That is, He Who does tarbiyyah the ‘âlam with all its component parts, each of which is an ‘âlam, and particles of which orderly move like stars.

Know that Allah ‘Azza wa jalla determined a point of perfection for everything and deposited in each an inclination towards it. Everything moves to that point of perfection as though they received a ma’nawî command. In its journey to its perfection point, each thing is in need of what will help it and what will repulse the things that hinder it, and this is the tarbiyyah of ‘Azza wa jalla.

If you look at the universe carefully and reflect, you will see that there are many groups and nations, like the sons of Âdam, individually and collectively employed in the duties their Sâni’ has assigned to them; they strive diligently and obey the laws of their Khâliq. How strange it is that man deviates from the sphere of such general law and order of the universe!