Looking at the apple and looking through the apple are two different things. There are two perspectives here. If you just look at the apple itself without thinking about who made it, you only see its material qualities. For instance, you talk about the beneficial vitamins in the apple, but you don’t think much about who placed those vitamins in the apple in the first place. In that case, you cannot fully realise Allah, who created the apple and blessed us with it.
Whereas if you look ...