Surah 27. An-Naml, Ayah 63

I.e., metonymically, through all the seemingly insoluble complexities of human life.

See 7:57 and the corresponding note [44].

 Via the stars and constellations.

 In the form of rain.

Cf. xxv. 48, n. 3104. After external nature, our attention was drawn to our inner consciousness; after that, it is drawn here to our social and collective life, in which we use the forces of nature for international intercourse, trade, agriculture, production, and economic well-being generally. In the next verse, we are asked to contemplate creation from its primeval stages, through its intermediate processes, to the final Destiny in a new Creation-a new heaven and a new earth.