The Quran is known as “A Book of Signs.” Aya means “verse” in Arabic, but it also means “sign,” and just as every verse of the Quran is a sign, so, too, is nature. The Milky Way, a birch tree, a breeze, all are made to guide humans toward belief. To read these signs was not just to believe, but to appreciate, just as “Al-Rahman” demanded.

