سورة الغاشية

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Allah the Exalted has appointed for each of the limbs and organs of a human being a duty that is not connected to another organ... As for what He has made obligatory upon the two eyes, it is looking at the signs of Allah and lowering the gaze from what Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has forbidden. In the Glorious Quran He says: أَ فَلا یَنْظُرُونَ إِلَی الْإِبِلِ کَیْفَ خُلِقَتْ، وَ إِلَی السَّماءِ کَیْفَ رُفِعَتْ، وَ إِلَی الْجِبالِ کَیْفَ نُصِبَتْ، وَ إِلَی الْأَرْضِ کَیْفَ سُطِحَت [Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? And the heaven, how it is raised? And the mountains, how they are set up? And the earth, how it is spread out?].

Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him): It is narrated from Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him) that he said: Allah the Exalted said: أَفَلَا یَنظُرُونَ إِلَی الْإِبِلِ کَیْفَ خُلِقَتْ [Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?] — meaning the livestock. And He said: وَ إِلَی السَّماءِ کَیْفَ رُفِعَتْ، وَ إِلَی الْجِبالِ کَیْفَ نُصِبَتْ، وَ إِلَی الْأَرْضِ کَیْفَ سُطِحَت [And the heaven, how it is raised? And the mountains, how they are set up? And the earth, how it is spread out?]. Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, says: "Can anyone other than Me create the like of the camel, and raise up the like of the heaven, and set up the like of the mountains, and spread out the like of the earth? Does anyone other than Me do such a deed?"

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Hisham ibn al-Hakam narrated that among the questions of a zindiq (heretic) who came to Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) was that he said: "So what is the proof of Allah?" Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: "The existence of extraordinary works which are in the utmost degree of firmness and soundness indicates that a Maker has made them. Do you not see that whenever you look at a lofty, raised building or one that has been plastered — which has been built — you know that it has a builder who built it, even though you have not seen that builder and have not witnessed him building it?"

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): From Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him), in refutation of one who denied the existence of the Creator, [it is narrated that] the Imam (peace be upon him) said to one who denied the Creator: "When you see a building, do you acknowledge that it has a builder? And when you see a picture, do you acknowledge that it has a painter?" He said: "There is no escape from that."

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): All good is gathered in three qualities: looking, silence, and speech. Every look in which there is no lesson taken is heedlessness. Every silence in which there is no thought is negligence. Every speech in which there is no remembrance of Allah is idle talk. Blessed is the one whose look is a lesson, whose silence is thought, and whose speech is remembrance. He weeps over his sin, and people are safe from his evil.