1422 Sustenance may be understood in the sense of all the provision necessary for maintaining physical life as well as mental and spiritual development and wellbeing. Examples of the former are light and rain from heaven and the produce of the earth and facilities of movement on land and sea and in air. Examples of the latter are the moral and spiritual influences that come from our fellow-men, and from the great Teachers and Prophets. 1423 Just two of our ordinary faculties, hearing and sight, are mentioned, as examples of the rest. All the gifts of Allah, physical and spiritual, are enjoyed and incorporated by us by means of the faculties and capacities with which He has endowed us. 1424 Cf.
3:27 and n. 371;
6:36 ,
6:95 and n. 920,
30:19, and
36:12. 1425 This is the general summing-up of the argument. The government of the whole Creation and its maintenance and sustenance is in the hands of Allah. How futile then would it be to neglect His true worship and go after false gods?