A person can lie down alone in the summer heat and stare at the night sky for ages and ages and not cease to marvel at it's magnificence, splendour, beauty, punctuality, harmony, and creative design, and when it's really quiet, it strikes a person who ponders over it all that this stuff just can't happen without highly intelligent design, control, care, and absolute power.
I've experienced it myself on the roof at the village here in the east.
But not from out of the window in busy england cities, where there's so much going on and the lights never go out. In a remote village without electricity, it takes over your imagination and you feel tiny - but looked after by someone who cares, someone big; someone who even designs artistically and beautifully, someone who provides rain and food for everything that exists.
In busy cities, it's difficult to think past the government and child benefits from the political party or dad's paycheck or bank transfer from someone's business - even when you're told that God is the provider because everything is placed in it's place by people and rain is a nuisance, and food comes in plastic packets with company names and advertising on it - I'm not trying to demean busy life in cold cities, but it's a fact that the heavens and the earth has a different meaning in the quiet desert or remote village - unless you have a nice telescope to get lost inside, that's when your mind becomes consumed again.
Regarding trust in the Prophet

, I know english doesn't catch the prose and rhyme, but it does still catch the eloquence and magnificence to a high degree, try reading all of chapter 36 when it's really quiet and you'll see that it's not frivolous human speech, it's of a totally different caliber to poetry in terms of justice, magnificence, authority, wisdom and warning.
By studying the seerah of the Prophet

and comparing it with current events, you'll notice many similarities in situations, reactions - positive and negative, and you'll also see that the Prophet couldn't have been doing all of this by himself or with human help. The corrupt leaders used to ridicule him for his social standing, illiteracy, wealth, and authority (all based on their own whimsy measures) and just couldn't bring themselves to accept that such a man could have been chosen by God instead of them, until they saw that it was true and that the growing accetpance of his coll was a threat to their corrupt manipulation of the masses, but the people who had an interest in taking interest - usually the downtrodden and oppressed, and sometimes the thinking well off youth who didn't have a vested interest in the corrupt status quo - were able to think more honestly with themselves, and didn't block it out of their minds purposefully, and they could see that he wasn't doing any of it on his own accord, some even thought he was mad to have been enduring all that he had to endure, others thought that it was what the jinn brought to soothsayers. But those who needed to or cared to ponder - pondered, and the Quran was speaking to their inner souls and healing them, being confirmed as not being possible to be anything other than a revelation from the creator of the heavens and the earth who was dragging them out of the darkness and injustice, from the blatantly false beliefs and ridiculous social practices of their culture made up in the name of idols etc. And there were also the multiple and constant signs that are given with prophets - prophecies and not predictions - so when all of that culminates, and the poetically illiterate messenger

is speaking truth backed by powerful, authoritative, undoubtable truth in magnificent speech that none of the leaderd, poets or soothsayers could match in magnificence, helped along by the unjust via their spiteful hatred, trolling, false arguments, plotting, persecution, and hysteria - people start to sort things in their minds and make sense if it all and make a choice.
Any truthful person who compares the words, exhortations, and practicality of the Quran with all other laws and decress of leaders - will be forced to decide that the Quran is the truth and most wise guidance for conducting a well disciplined, respectable and noble life. But for that stage to come where people find that they need to make a choice, the political and social climate along with the people's desire for a way out from internal corruption has to be there - and it was there in a potent form at Makkah at the time of the Prophet, and slowly reached all of Arabia and it's surroundings in a different and more political way, and has now reached everybody in a way more similar to makkah than madinah (there was rarely hypocrisy in makkah because there was not much material benefit in accepting Islam).
So ompare it, and see the debates that took place at the time in order to see their reasoning.
Anyway, reading the Quran whilst pondering and comparing with current events and political comparisons in a holistic rather than compartmentalized manner should be an easy task for anyone who has a reason to care.
The challenge to produce a better, more practical and true guidance and way of life has not been met so far, and is far from likely in future.
Below is a record of some of the musings and arguments which are said to have taken place at the time:
I believe you'll notice, that the prose and rhythm is lost when translated, whereas that of the Quran fits universally no matter the language - especially english - along with cliches and analogies.
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