16وَعَلاماتٍ ۚ وَبِالنَّجمِ هُم يَهتَدونَMuhammad Asadas well as [various other] means of orientation: for [it is] by the stars that men find their way.1Lit., "they find their way". This passage rounds off the preceding description of God's favours to man by returning, in a subtle manner, to the theme introduced in verse 4 and alluded to, indirectly, in the last sentence of verse 8 as well as in verse 14:namely, the consideration of man's intellectual potential - the greatest of all the gifts bestowed upon him by God. (See in this connection note 5 above, as well as the allegory of the creation of man enunciated in 2:30-33.)