25 Preface وَمِن آياتِهِ أَن تَقومَ السَّماءُ وَالأَرضُ بِأَمرِهِ ۚ ثُمَّ إِذا دَعاكُم دَعوَةً مِنَ الأَرضِ إِذا أَنتُم تَخرُجونَYusuf AliAnd among His Signs is this, that heaven and earth stand by His Command:1 then when He calls you, by a single call, from the earth, behold, ye (straightway) come forth.In the physical world, the sky and the earth, as we see them, stand unsupported, by the artistry of God. They bear witness to God, and in-that our physical life depends on them-the earth for its produce and the sky for rain, the heat of the sun, and other phenomena of nature-they call to our mind our relation to God Who made them and us. How can we then be so dense as not to realise that our higher Future-our Ma'ad-is, bound up with the call and the mercy of God!