In the Name of Allah, the
Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from Chapter 2 of QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir:
138. Sibghata
Allahi waman ahsanu mina Allahi sibghatan wanahnu lahu AAabidoona
138. Allah has
done the painting! 208 And who could be better than Allah in
painting? And worship Him, we 209 do!
208. Allah has done – and is, in fact, continuously
re-doing – the painting on His infinitely vast canvas stretching the entire
Universe. We, the creatures, are of course unable to see the full picture. But
whatever parts of it we can see make us marvel at the exquisite mingling of
colours to produce the breath-takingly beautiful pictures of natural sceneries.
No human artist can ever hope to come even remotely near the perfection
divinely executed. Our heads ought to automatically bow in recognition of and
in utter submission to the Great, Inimitable Artist.
209. And who could the pronoun 'we' here,
stand for? The context of this Verse and the preceding one, suggests that it is
the Angels conveying the Qur'aanic Verses that 'we' refers to here. It is the
Angels, moreover, who can have a better view of the infinitely large divine
Painting than we, humans, and therefore can appreciate its grandeur, better. It
is this better appreciation that makes them sincerely worship Allah.
Friday,
the 9th of June 2017.
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