Saturday, April 9, 2016

We have honored the children of Adam!!!!!

The idea of human dignity in Islam is as old as Islam itself. It comes straight from the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Sunnah. It is not the result of social or political evolution, as it is in the case of other systems of thought, in which the idea of inalienable “human dignity” is a relatively modern idea, developed after a long evolution in the legal, social and political spheres.

The Qur’an explicitly states that the children of Adam are honored.

The Qur’an shows that, of all creatures, human beings are the most perfect, considering their constitution and morphology. Allah says: “Surely We created the human being of the best of forms.” Surah al-Tin: 4

This does not prevent human beings from having weaknesses inherent in their creation, and indeed Allah says: “Truly the human being was created weak.” Surah al-Nisa’: 28

And Allah said in surah Balad 4: We have certainly created man into hardship. And He said in surah Anbiya 37: Man was created of haste. And He said in surah Isra 11: And man supplicates for evil as he supplicates for good, and man is ever hasty.

And Allah said in surah Al-Kahf 54: And We have certainly diversified in this Qur'an for the people from every [kind of] example; but man has ever been, most of anything, [prone to] dispute.

Allah said in surah Al-Isra 70: 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 of what We have created, with [definite] preference.