Man's restoration in the Hereafter is more straightforward than his first creation
- Updated On Thursday, 05 June 2014
- Written by Ayatullah Musavi Lari
- Editor Kawther Rahmani
- Supervisor Sayyed Roohullah Musavi
- Published on Thursday, 01 March 2012
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"Man must reflect on the materials from which he was created. He was created from a drop of gushing sperm that issues from between the loins and the ribs. God, Who is thus able to create man from this insignificant liquid, is without a doubt capable of reviving him after his death" (86:5-8). The verse draws the attention of man in the first place to the beginning of creation and the material out of which his being was fashioned so that he might reflect on the stages he traversed before becoming a fully-formed human being. It then raises the question of whether so powerful a planner and designer could be incapable of gathering together the scattered particles of man's physical being in order to fashion them into a new form and inhale in it anew the spirit of life. The Quran has recourse here to a rational analogy: if an individual or group of individuals is able to perform a certain deed, it follows that they are capable of performing another deed of the same type or even one better than it. Here, however, we are not dealing with a greater or more complex task. The argument relates rather to one that is simpler and more straightforward: after the collapse of the compounds of which the body is made up, God wishes to re-create man out of existing materials. We thus come to understand clearly the truth of these divine words: "We created you from earth and We will return you to earth, and then bring you forth again from earth" (20:55).