Transliteration:( Wallazee khalaqal azwaaja kullahaa wa ja'ala lakum minal fulki wal-an'aami maa tarkaboon )
16 Physical as well as spiritual. Physical pairs like male and female, black and white, sour and sweet, etc. The spiritual pairs are pious and wretched, believer and infidel, sinner and God-fearing, heart and soul, etc.
17. Just like the carriages in which you travel on land and sea, He has created carriages for the journey of the Hereafter. The issues of Shariah and Tareeqat, our good deeds, etc. are all the conveyances for this journey. The Ulama and Saints are the captains of these conveyances. Just as the passengers are not independent from the captain of the ship, the believers, too, are not indifferent to the Ulama and Saints.
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12. Pairs here does not imply only pairs of men and women among human beings and of males and females among animals and vegetation, but there are countless other things which the Creator has made as matching partners of each other and by whose coming together and combination new and ever new things come into being in the world. For example, among the elements, some can be combined with others and some cannot be combined. The combination of those which can combine is resulting into various compositions, e.g. the negative and positive charges in electricity are the matching partners of each other and their mutual attraction is causing wonderful things to happen in the world. If man considers the structure and the mutual relationships and the different forms of cooperation and the results of the combination of this and other countless pairs which Allah has created among countless of His creations. He cannot help testifying to the truth that this great workshop of the world is the creation of one and only one Almighty, All-Wise Designer, and is functioning only under His care and control. Only a man of mean intelligence could suppose that all this happened, and is happening, without a Wise Being, or there is the possibility in it of the agency and interference of more than one God.
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