70 Preface وَاللَّهُ خَلَقَكُم ثُمَّ يَتَوَفّاكُم ۚ وَمِنكُم مَن يُرَدُّ إِلىٰ أَرذَلِ العُمُرِ لِكَي لا يَعلَمَ بَعدَ عِلمٍ شَيئًا ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَليمٌ قَديرٌYusuf AliIt is God who creates you and takes your souls at death; and of you there are some who are sent back to a feeble age, so that1 they know nothing after having known (much): for God is All-Knowing,2 All-Powerful.Besides the mystery and beauty of the many processes going on in the working of God’s Creation, there is the wonderful life of man himself on this earth: how he is created as a child; how he grows in intelligence and knowledge; and how his soul is taken back and his body suffers dissolution. In some cases he lives so long that he falls into a feeble old age like a second childhood: he forgets what he learnt and seems almost to go back in Time. Is not all this wonderful, and evidence of the Knowledge and Power of God?(Cf. 22:5). Our attention having been called to the remarkable transformations in life and nature, by which the Knowledge and Power of God work out His beneficent Plan for His creatures, we are reminded that man at best is but a feeble creature, but for the grace of God. We then pass on in the next Section to the differences in the gifts which men themselves enjoy, distinguishing them into so many categories. How much greater is the difference between the created things and their Creator?