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Man and the Wisdom of the Creator
In his Holy Qur’an,
God said,
“We have in need created man In the best of moulds.” (The Fig sura – verse 4)
He also
said,
“He has created man: He has taught him speech (And Intelligence),” (The All
Merciful sura – verses 3-4),
and many other holy verses which indicate that God
(Most Glorified, Most Exalted)
had created man, the most honorable of creatures, and made all other beings at
his servitude, so he could fulfill his worship to God.
God willed to create
this rational live, talking, moving creature and distinguish him from other
creatures by unique characteristics and traits. He made him rational with
intellect, alive with soul, talking with his capacity to pronounce and speak and
moving with his capacity to have acted and act.
Man’s ability to
understand and analyze information is because of the divine grace gifted to him
by the Almighty. The Intellect
“Al-Aql”
stands for
mercifulness since it is the border by which God’s servant understands what the
Most Gracious, Most Merciful, wants him to perceive
“verily In this are Signs For men who are wise.” (The Bees sura – verse 12)
The Soul
“An-nafs”
is another special
trait that characterized this being as unique, it is similar to the image
susceptible to goodness – represented by The Intellect
“Al-Aql”
– and the evil
– represented by “ignorance”
–
simultaneously; he who knows himself, knows his God. Man’s ability to express
himself is limited to The Word
“al-kalimah”
he utters, and
his time is limited to The Former
“as-sabek”
i.e the former of
previous actions and The Latter
“at-tali”
i.e what follows of
creating existence itself.
Consequently, it has
been obvious that the borders of man are limited to The Intellect, The Soul, The
Word, The Former and The Latter of actions.
Based on the Holy
verse,
“Then shall anyone who Has done an atom’s weight Of good, see it! And anyone who
Has done an atom’s weight Of evil, shall see it.” (The Convulsion sura – verse
7),
the
Mouwahidoune Druze believe that man is responsible for his actions, where the
Messenger
(pbuh)
said,
“Everyone is a shepherd responsible for his cattle,”
the less are his
sins, the higher is his rank and vice versa.
God, we ask you that
we are of those whom you meant with in your saying,
“The balance that day Will be true (to a nicety): Those whose scale (of good)
Will be heavy, will prosper.” (The Heights sura – verse 8),
and not
of those whom you meant with in your saying,
“Those whose scale will be light, Will find their souls In perdition, for that
they Wrongfully treated Our Signs.” (The Heights sura – verse 9)
and the
last of our invocation that praise to God, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the
Worlds.
Monotheistic Concepts
The
Bureau of Mashyakhat Al Aql of
the
Mouwahidoune Druze Sect – Beirut
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