Pondering on the universe leads to understanding the Divine Laws:

Besides being worship, pondering on what Allah has created is a means to understand the laws of the universe that human can benefit by and use to establish civilizations.

Deep thinking and precise investigation help people with discovering such facts as will contribute to the progress of science in all its fields. Al-Sayyid Sabiq says: “Every organ has a function, and the function of the mind is to contemplate, ponder and think. If such activities stop, the mind becomes worthless and unable to perform the most important of its functions, which will result in the interruption of life activity and consequently stagnation, death and annihilation.”[1] The scholars of the Islamic Ummah in the ages of the bloom of Islamic Civilization were unprecedented in the matter of working their minds and pondering on the Signs of Allah.”[2]  People of understanding are those who respond to the call of their Lord and use their intellect to understand the universe, step by step till they reach the highest level of knowledge acquisition, i.e. the level of yaqin (perfect unwavering belief) that the Prophets and Messengers (peace be upon them) and the Companions and all the righteous people (may Allah be pleased with them all) who came thereafter, attained to.

The rank of Yaqin is the level that should be the target of those who want to ward off the Fire and enter Paradise.

Yaqin should settle in the heart of every Muslim. Yaqin, as defined by al-Junaid: “the stability of the knowledge that is not reversed, changed or altered in the heart.”[3]

Allah (SWT) says: “Thus did We show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth that he might be of those possessing Yaqin (certainty).” (VI: 75) Allah (SWT) singles out those who possess Yaqin for benefiting by the Signs and Proofs, saying: “And in the earth there are signs for those who possess Yaqin.” (LI: 20)[4]

The longer and deeper one thinks over the Signs, the clearer the truths and the higher the degree of Yaqin that increases with the acquisition of more knowledge.