“God created Adam in His own form (surah).” (Hadith)
Not the material form, not this body of matter driven by chemical interactions and electrical impulses. Not this form which changes with time and circumstance falling finally into decay and ruin, into death and dust, into its elemental components. Not this animal form so similar to that of the beasts, separated in physiology and genetic structure by a mere fractional arc. But the spiritual substance which is the essential configuration of a human being - a subtle form wrapped in the veils of body and mind which few have the perspicacity to witness. The ineffable true form of “My spirit” before which the angels fell in prostration. Of those who parade about in the world glorifying themselves and glorifying their ambitious causes, who is there that recognizes what the angels recognized? If the angels swooned in obedient prostration before the form of this ruh (this spirit), then why be ungrateful, negligent towards such a gift - the spiritual form which is the guide who knows the path of return to its Lord.
“I am going to create a mortal from dust, So when I have made him complete and breathed into him of My spirit then fall down making obeisance to him.” (Qur’an 38:72)
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