3 Preface خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ بِالحَقِّ وَصَوَّرَكُم فَأَحسَنَ صُوَرَكُم ۖ وَإِلَيهِ المَصيرُYusuf AliHe has created the heavens and the earth in just proportions, and has given you shape,1 and made your shapes beautiful: and to Him is the final Goal.2Cf. 40:64, and n. 4440: also 7:11 and n. 996. In addition to the beauty and grandeur of all God’s Creation, He has endowed man with special aptitudes, faculties and capacities, and special excellencies which raise him at his best to the position of God’s vicegerent on earth. “Beautiful” also includes the idea of “adapted to the ends for which they were created”.The final Goal: not only of mankind, but of all things created, whether material or in the realm of ideas and events. All things return to God: as they derive their origin from Him, so is the return or destination of all of them to God.