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Sura 95
Aya 4
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لَقَد خَلَقنَا الإِنسانَ في أَحسَنِ تَقويمٍ

Mir Ahmed Ali

Indeed1 We created man in the best structure.
  • Ahsan’, i.e., the best. ‘Taqweem’, i.e., the make, the constitution, structure, form, pattern. One who knows the wonderful wisdom with which every part of the human body, with its form, its structure, its faculties and its constitution, which manages the function of each part in perfect harmony with every other and the marvellous faculties, the brain is endowed with, will know the significance of man being referred to in invoking the recognition of the existence of the One with the supreme Wisdom, Power and the Authority who has effected such marvels in the Universe. The make of everything in God’s creation is so perfect that there is no room for any change or alternative in it—see 30:30. Man has been made with such supreme endowments that with the maintenance of these gifts in their original purity, he is the Vicegerent of God on earth, superior even to the greatest of the angels in the heavens. It is only to man that is given the wonderful endowment or gift of conscience or discretion, a tool with which there is no height to which man can not reach. In short, if man keeps his soul safe against getting polluted or getting covered with the dust and the dirt of the low desires and loathsome passions, he can get the divine attributes of the Creator Lord reflected in him and which is the highest level and the final goal of the human life on earth.