MAN’S superiority over all creatures lies in his faculty of creative knowledge, which the heavens, despite their heights, the mountains, despite their firmness, and the earth, despite its vastness, refused to take on (Quran 33:72). This points to the faculty to discern the properties of things and give them ‘names’ (2:31). This... read full story
"Although we [Muslims] are coiled up in ourselves like a bud; should we perish, the whole garden [of the world] must perish."