THE CREATION OF MAN

 

                                                                     THE CREATION OF MAN

                                                                            By: Kassim Ahmad

                                                                               12 April, 2017

                                                           darul_hikmah333@yahoo.com.my

      The Quran states that God created man from one being, then his mate, and from the two many beings of many tribes and nation. But the best are the ones who worship God totally without associating Him with any being or with any thing. These are called submitters or muslims or mukmins or who have internalised God into thei selves.

      God, of course, does not need their worship of Him. He is the philosophical Necessary Being while the universe, including man is contingent being. Man is God's shadow on earth. He has been sent to the earth to retrieve himself after being duped by God's enemy, the Devil, for opposing God's order to bow down to Man. This order is symbolic of Man's ability to know. Knowledge is power, power to rule and remake the universe.

      Why did God create an imperfect universe? Perfection is God Who exists by Himself. Read the Throne Verse (2: 255) to know Who God is. God is Power Perfect. He does not create another god to rival Him. Two gods is one two many. It is illogical and therefore a great wrong, destined for hell.

      There are three types of man, or rather ideologies or beliefs, the true belief, monotheism, the false belief, polytheism, and in between you have hipocracy. These beliefs bring about their consequences of the psychological states of mind of unease and contentment, the ammarah, the lawwamah and the jannah of the Quran.

      These psychological states exist now in this world, to be continued in the hereafter. The hereafter is a logical continuation of this  world, on a higher ethical and spiritual level. Man therefore does not dies. The Quran likens death to sleep, and waking to resurrection, as his soul is a breath of the divine soul. The term 'death' used in the Quran is  life potential before it becomes factual.

      What is God then? God is Pure Energy. It is so powerful that no created being can withstand it. There will a time when billions of years from now this immensely vase universe will be bereft of energy. It will collapse upon itself, leaving "the Countenance of God", whatever that means. A divine Hadith (Hadith Qudsi) has it, "I was alone at the beginning. I am now as I was before." That means only God exists. Man or the universe does not!

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KASSIM AHMAD  is a Malaysian author. His website is