Day 7 | Ayat 7 | The World is an Adornment

Today’s Ayat is (for me) at first seems deceptively easy to understand. This world is an adornment so that people may be tested. Our tests and challenges and trials in this life will be varied, as the surah will later show in the four stories of the fitna of religion, wealth, knowledge and power. But this world is our home, albeit a transient home on the way to our permanent abode. But Allah prepared this earth for us, made it beautiful and made is habitable. Those gifts are tremendous and may be overlooked when we lose gratitude. But also this world is a test. We will be tested with our wealth, our relationships, ourselves and more. Some people will be given riches beyond measure but they commit horrendous deeds, and some will live with barely anything, and yet will be grateful and do righteous deeds. All this is part of Allah’s test and Allah’s Mercy. The illustration I chose for this entry is one of nature with motifs you will see repeated as they are easy, beautiful and informative: trees, rivers, gardens and mountains.