30:20 Ar-Room (The Romans)

ومن آيات الله الدالة على عظمته وكمال قدرته أن خلق أباكم آدم من تراب، ثم أنتم بشر تتناسلون منتشرين في الأرض، تبتغون من فضل الله.

هذا شروع في تعداد آياته الدالة على انفراده بالإلهية وكمال عظمته، ونفوذ مشيئته وقوة اقتداره وجميل صنعه وسعة رحمته وإحسانه فقال: { وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَكُمْ مِنْ تُرَابٍ } وذلك بخلق أصل النسل آدم عليه السلام { ثُمَّ إِذَا أَنْتُمْ بَشَرٌ تَنْتَشِرُونَ } [أي: الذي خلقكم من أصل واحد ومادة واحدة] وبثكم في أقطار الأرض [وأرجائها ففي ذلك آيات على أن الذي أنشأكم من هذا الأصل وبثكم في أقطار الأرض] هو الرب المعبود الملك المحمود والرحيم الودود الذي سيعيدكم بالبعث بعد الموت.

قوله تعالى "ومن آياته أن خلق لكم من أنفسكم أزواجا" أي خلق لكم من جنسكم إناثا تكون لكم أزواجا "لتسكنوا إليها" كما قال تعالى "هو الذي خلقكم من نفس واحدة وجعل منها زوجها ليسكن إليها" يعني بذلك حواء خلقها الله من آدم من ضلعه الأقصر الأيسر. ولو أنه تعالى جعل بني آدم كلهم ذكورا وجعل إناثهم من جنس آخر من غيرهم إما من جان أو حيوان لما حصل هذا الائتلاف بينهم وبين الأزواج بل كانت تحصل نفره لو كانت الأزواج من غير الجنس ثم من تمام رحمته ببني آدم أن جعل أزواجهم من جنسهم وجعل بينهم وبينهن مودة وهي المحبة ورحمة وهي الرأفة فإن الرجل يمسك المرأة إما لمحبته لها أو لرحمة بها بأن يكون لها منه ولد أو محتاجة إليه في الإنفاق أو للألفة بينهما وغير ذلك "إن في ذلك لآيات لقوم يتفكرون".

And of His signs exalted be He indicating His power is that He created you in other words your origin Adam of dust then lo! you are human beings of flesh and blood spreading across the earth.

Commentary

After narrating the incident of the war between Rum and Persia in the beginning of Surah Ar-Rum, it was declared that the cause of the misguidance of the infidels and their heedlessness towards the truth was their excessive love for material life and paying no heed to the Hereafter. After that, any possible misgiving regarding resurrection on the Dooms Day and about the rewards and punishment after reckoning was clarified from different angles. Then it was suggested that one should, at the first place, look and ponder within his Self, and then should look around and note what had happened to the people who had lived before, and what was their end. After that Allah's exclusive Omnipotence was described, in which no one is His partner. The obvious conclusion of all these facts and reasoning is that no one else but Allah is entitled to being worshipped, and what He has conveyed through His prophets about the Dooms Day, resurrection, reckoning, Paradise and Hell in the Hereafter should be believed in its totality. In the above verses six manifestations of His Omnipotence together with all-encompassing wisdom are described which are the signs of His incomparable power and wisdom. These realities are termed in these verses as "signs" which in the present context mean "signs of the divine omnipotence"

First sign of divine omnipotence

Man, the most distinguished among all creatures who is the ruler of the universe, is created from earth, which is the most inferior element among all the constituting elements of nature. Among the four well-known elements, that is water, fire, air and earth, the last named does not have the slightest sense, sensation or movement. All other elements have at least some movement, but the earth is devoid of that as well. However, this element is selected by Allah Ta’ ala for the creation of humans. Iblis (Shaitan) was misled by his arrogance as he regarded himself superior to man, since he is made of fire. What he failed to understand was that greatness and superiority is awarded by Allah Ta’ ala. He is free to award it to any one He chooses.

Creation of man from earth is obvious with reference to ‘Adam (علیہ السلام) who is the father of all mankind. Since he was created from clay, the entire mankind, being his progeny, is created indirectly from clay. Every man's creation from earth may also be explained by saying that every man or woman is created from human sperm which is constituted by different ingredients. The origin of most of these ingredients is nothing but earth.

And of His signs is that He created you of dust, and then you were mortal man, spreading about. O child of Adam! If you want to know the signs and banners of God's Unity and recognize the marks of His Solitariness, open the eye of heedfulness, open up the insight of intellect, roam the world of your own soul, and gaze on the root of your own creation. You were a handful of dust, a dark makeup stuck in the darkness of your own unknowing, bewildered by the darkness of attri- butes. Then the rain of lights began to fall from the heaven of mysteries: “Then He sprinkled them with some of His light.” The dust turned into jasmine and the stone became pearls. The dense makeup became exalted by this subtle link. The dust became pure, the darkness became light. “Yes, it is We who adorn and paint. We adorn whom We will with Our light. We adorn the Garden with Our friends, We adorn Our friends with the heart, and We adorn the heart with Our light. We do this so that if they do not reach the pavilions of Our exaltedness through the carcass of their misery, they will reach Us through the ray of the prosperity of Our majesty's light.” A pir was asked, “What is the mark of that light?” He replied, “Its mark is that with that light the servant recognizes God without finding Him, loves Him without seeing Him, and turns away from his own work and the remembrance of himself toward His work and remembering Him. His ease and settledness are in His street, his secrets and joy with His friends. By day he is in the religion's work, by night in the drunkenness of certainty's tidings. By day he is with the people in good character and by night with the Real in the footing of truthfulness [10:2].”