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Searching for a ring in the desert!
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Doctor, take us on a journey to the Hereafter, but let us return to the most important and greatest question: who is the Lord of all the worlds? This is the God whom some people—God forbid—dare to insult.
God is our refuge. Indeed, the most beautiful and greatest topic a person can discuss is God, the Exalted and Glorified. To know Him, draw near to Him, and speak of His majesty and grandeur. To appreciate the honor with which God has honored us by creating us, addressing us, and entrusting us with responsibilities, let us reflect on this scene:
Imagine that we are now sitting in the "studio" on planet Earth, among nearly nine billion human beings. This entire planet, in comparison, is but one-millionth the size of the Sun. The Sun, in turn, is a medium-sized star among the estimated hundreds of millions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
The Milky Way is just one of the estimated hundreds of billions of galaxies in this universe. There are enormous telescopes observing the farthest reaches of the cosmos, and when you zoom in, every tiny point you see is an entire galaxy.
All this vast space that we see and observe is merely an adornment for the lowest heaven. These seven heavens, vast as they are, are to the Footstool of the Most Merciful as a ring cast into a vast desert, as the Prophet peace be upon him said: "The seven heavens compared to the Footstool are but like a ring thrown into a barren desert."
Imagine you are in an airplane and, somehow, manage to open the window—which, of course, would be extremely dangerous—and you remove the ring from your finger and toss it into the Rub' al Khali desert. Would it be easy to find that ring? Of course not, it would be impossible.
Similarly, everything you see in this magnificent universe is like a ring cast into a barren desert compared to the Footstool of the Most Merciful. And the Footstool itself, in relation to the Throne, is like a ring in a desert as well. God, the Exalted, is above all of that:
The Most Merciful is established on the Throne.
Despite all this grandeur and majesty, He addresses us, humanity, to draw us closer to His mercy, encompass us with His forgiveness, and admit us to Paradise by His side.