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Friday, September 16, 2011

Are humans the best of creation, creatures "ashraful makhluqat" ?

Just a quick note

God does inform us that we, humans were created in the best of mold/stature/confirmation etc

But here is the thing, the word تَقْوِيمٍ in Quran 95:04 is translated as;

Sahih International: We have certainly created man in the best of stature;
Pickthall: Surely We created man of the best stature
Yusuf Ali: We have indeed created man in the best of molds,
Shakir: Certainly We created man in the best make.
Muhammad Sarwar: We have created the human being in the best form
Mohsin Khan: Verily, We created man of the best stature (mold),
Arberry: We indeed created Man in the fairest stature
Ahmed Ali: That We created man of the finest possibilities,
Asad: Verily, We create man in the best conformation;

Mind you all of the above are experts in classical Arabic. OK most of them but you get the point :)

The point I am trying to make is that we should not get ahead of ourselves. The above verse is not a slam dunk for our assumption that we are God’s pets. But again we are not exactly slouches either, well at least potentially not. Hence that explains that some among us are terrible, cruel and so ignorant, and sometimes just straight up disgusting as somebody pointed out. So, we are not God's greatest creation but better than most of His creation as per the following verse;

And We have certainly honored the children of Adam and carried them on the land and sea and provided for them of the good things and preferred them over much كَثِيرٍ of what We have created, with preference. Quran 17:70

The word used is kathīrin كَثِيرٍ from the root كَثُرَ , clearly leaving room for creation better than humans.

Good enough for me.

8 comments:

  1. Interesting point, brother.

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  2. Right, we are best only on Earth, but not in the entire existence. Optimal work! May Allah increase our knowledge Ameen.

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  4. Human is not a single creation. Human has gifted by Allah some extra creations which called ashraful makhluqat, such as soul, wisdom, self, speak, memory, there are more.

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    1. Afzal thanks for visiting my humble blog. Could you please elaborate a bit.. Thanks

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    2. To understand ( Ahsan e taqweem ) we must uderstand the self & soul espaicialy not only meaning of word
      It's roots to human (spiritualy) in the beginning Quran says (hodalil mutaqeen) a man to understand Quran must be mutaqi the can't understand it's matan

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    3. With respect, that is all good but this all will still be parts of the same entity Insan. In the same way that better creations than Insane will also have different moving parts.

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  5. Do you think the other creations can be called ahsan taqweem. My point is only this. This will not implement to all insan there are two category which is mention in the quran. One follow Allah (momins) and other who not follow which will not count as best the word for them (sum mun buk mun umyun furthermore worse then animals.

    I am not for arguments, just for the knowledge only. by the way you called your blog life guru. The name guru have question in it who is your guru.

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