Thursday 27 June 2019

Divine Painting


In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

138. Sibghata Allahi waman ahsanu mina Allahi sibghatan wanahnu lahu AAabidoona

2:138. Allah has done the painting! 208 And who could be better than Allah in painting? And worship Him, we209 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 28th of June 2019.

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