SERVE YOU SUCH A GOD:

      After explaining the situation of the three classes of people, namely the VIRTUOUS, the HEATHEN, and the HYPOCRITE, the BOOK, refers to the line of the first group which ends to SALVATION; saying: ``O, People! Serve your Lord who created you, and those that were before you, perhaps you might avoid evil.''

The addressing phrase: `O, PEOPLE! has been repeated throughout the HOLY BOOK for about 20 times. This is a comprehensive addressing, to indicate that QURÄN, has not been revealed for only a certain class, group, race, or tribe of people. Its invitation and call, is almost to all mankind, calling them generally to the Service and Worship of the only one God, Who has created them all. (VERSE NO. 21) It also challenges to fight with all sorts of POLYTHEISM and deviation from the path of truth.

THE BOUNTY OF THE EARTH AND THE SKY.

      The VERSE NO.22 reminds some GIFTS and GRACE of God that worth many thanks and gratitudes: First, it points out at the creation of the Earth which is made as resting place for us. Such a wonderful fast and easy moving mount that carries man upon its back, and travels with a delirious and dazzling speed, through the infinite space, without the least vibration and throbbing or thrilling! Such a mount is of surety one of the great gifts of Allah to man. Its GRAVITY gives you a chance and opportunity to move wherever you want, or to have rest whenever you like. It gives you chances to work, to build, to farm and many other functions. Have you ever thought that without the attraction of gravity you had to wander in the air up and down and out of control?

      The VERSE, then refers to the SKY, as another gift and grace of God saying: ``And He made the sky a canopy for you.''

      Here by SKY, the ATMOSPHERE, or the air envelope around our planet is wanted, which is held to it by gravitational attraction and it is extended to several hundred miles. Though it seems to be insubstantial, but in realty it has enormous mass with a total weight estimated to be 5000 million, million tons, exerting a pressure upon the earth's surface avaraging about 15 Lb. per square inch.

      Had this huge SPHERE OF AIR not surrounded the earth, meteoric showers would have made IT inhabitable, and it could not be a resting place for the creatures, as it is said in the VERSE NO. 22.

      Then it refers to the GIFT OF RAIN; saying: `And He sent down water from the sky wherewith He brought forth fruits for your sustenance.'

      Indeed is water a great, if not the greatest, Gift and bounty of our Merciful Lord. It is the source of life, the foundation of all the flourishing and cultivations and material bounties. It is a sign and indication of GOD'S extensive MERCY, that covers and encompasses all things, and also of HIS infinite POWER and KNOWLEDGE. HE easily brings

out from the pure, colourless water hundreds of thousands of fruits, foods, flowers of various colour, smell, and taste; for man and animal. This is one of the most lively and vivid reasons and proofs of HIS existence. `Then do not set up compeers to Allah knowingly.'

IDOLATRY IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS

      Generally, to compare or liken any entity, in power, effects or characters to God, is a form of POLYTHEISM, which sometimes creeps in the hearts of man, as an ant may creep upon a black stone in a dark night! The COMPEERS, or the false gods might be; idols, superstitions, and natural phenomena. They may also be the pride of race and birth, the pride of rank, power, and wealth, when are set as rivals to God or compared with His attributes.