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“لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي أَحْسَنِ تَقْوِيمٍ”
“We have certainly created man in the best of stature.”
(Al-Quran, Sura At-Teen 95:4)
(1)
Animals can hear what is un-hearable to human beings.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam said about the situation after one is placed in the Qabr,
“One who is blind and dumb will then be placed in charge of him (who deserves punishment), having a sledge-hammer such that if a mountain were struck with it, it would become dust. He will give him a blow with it which will be heard by everything between the east and the west except by men and Jinn, and he will become dust. Then his spirit will be restored to him.”
(Sunan Abu Dawud 4753 (Saheeh)
Subhanallah! Animals can see what is unseen to human beings.
In another Hadith, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam said,
“When you listen to the crowing of the cock, ask Allah for His favour as it sees Angels and when you listen to the braying of the donkey, seek refuge in Allah from the Satan for it sees Satan.”
(Saheeh Muslim 6813/ 82-2729)
Subhanallah!
Look at the power and capability of the animals!
They can see what humans can’t,
They can hear what humans can’t,
They can hear the unseen, which humans can’t
They can see the unseen, what humans can’t.
Subhanallah!
Yet Allah says humans are the best of creations!
Azeeb!
Why?
What makes humans better than animals?
What makes humans the best of all creations?
(2)
The creation of the universe is more complicated than the creation of a human being,
Allah, Al-Khaliq, the Creator says, “Which is harder to create: you or the sky?”
(Sura Naziat 79:27)
Yet Allah says humans are the best of creations!
Azeeb!
Why?
What makes humans better than the universe?
What makes humans the best of all creations?
(3)
The answer is given here by none other than the creator of human beings, Allah, Al-Khaliq, Al-Hakeem.
“Indeed, the worst of all beings in the sight of Allah are the (wilfully) deaf and dumb, who do not use AQL.
(Sura Anfal 8:22)
If you do the Critical Reasoning of this Ayah, you can derive the answer.
Who is Allah talking about here?
Human beings?
Who are the worst human beings?
“Those who do not use their AQL”
Meaning, human beings are supposed to use their AQL; this is how they are created, with AQL.
An animal was not given AQL.
The universe was not given AQL.
It is the human beings who are given AQL.
Therefore, we can derive the understanding that using the AQL is what makes the distinction among the animals, the universe and the human beings.
On the contrary,
NOT USING that AQL makes a human worse than the animals.
And the worst than that is that they are for FIRE.
Allah says,
“And We have certainly created for Hell many of the jinn and mankind. They have hearts with which they do not understand, they have eyes with which they do not see, and they have ears with which they do not hear. Those are like livestock; rather, they are more astray. It is they who are the heedless.”
(Sura Al-A’raf 7:179)
Thus, not only having but also USING the AQL (all the faculties) makes humans better than the animals and the universe.
Wa Allahu A’lam.
May Allah make us among those who contemplate the Quran.
May Allah increase us in beneficial knowledge.
May Allah make us to live by the Dignity Being Human.
Ameen.
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