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THE WILL OF ALLAH PREVAILS IN SHAPING THE DESTINY OF MAN, LETTING THE LIGHT OF GUIDANCE SHINE IN A HEART TO MAKE IT PERCEIVE THE DIVINE REALITY (SURAH INSAN-76 Part-I)

 

    


This surah reminds the man of his true position in the world. If one recognizes this true place and embraces the attitude of gratefulness, one will surely meet a good end. But if one fails in this, a difficult end will embrace him. This surah begins by reminding man of his humble beginning, referring to his time of conception, when he was nothing. “HAS THERE (not) been an endless span of time before man (appeared - a time) when he was not yet a thing to be thought of?” (Quran 76:1). It is He who got him created from a drop of sperm that gets intermingled with the female ovum and gave him all the faculties that would have been his requirement while his stay in this limited world.  “Verily, it is We who have created man out of a drop of sperm intermingled, so that We might try him (in his later life): and therefore We made him a being endowed with hearing and sight” (Quran 76:2). How man gets developed, shaped and becomes grown up is nothing to his credit but it is alone to the One Who brought him into this world and that is Allah. It is Allah, the Supreme Being who endowed man with the hearing and the sight. He gave man the reason and the instinctive ability to discern between right and wrong, good and evil. Moreover, the man has been guided by the Divine revelations bestowed upon the prophets as well. “Verily, We have shown him the way: (and it rests with him to prove himself) either grateful or Ungrateful” (Quran 76: 3).  “(No) behold, for those who deny the truth. We have readied chains and shackles, and a blazing flame” (Quran 76: 4). Now it is all up to man to deny the truth. This denial relates to the man’s deliberate suppression of his inborn cognition of Allah’s existence and his disregarding of own instinctive perception of good and evil. This blind surrender to his own passions and false values will lead towards the suffering in the hereafter.  It’s all up to him to either work for a good end or to opt for the evil one.

      Next the Quran mentions the gifts of Jannah that will be for those who would have lived their lives as being God-conscious, in servitude to Allah.  “(whereas) behold, the truly virtuous shall drink from a cup flavored with the calyx of sweet-smelling flowers” (Quran 76:5). Allah promises such men the rewards by mentioning an allusion to the sweet extremely delicate fragrance of the symbolic "drink" 'of divine knowledge. Though everyone may not be entitled for this, only those who would have carried out their duties by abstaining themselves from what has been forbidden by Allah, will be rewarded without any restriction. It means that everything will be in abundance, at their disposal. “a source (of bliss) whereof God's servants shall drink, seeing it flow in a flow abundant” (Quran 76:6). They will be the ones who would be fulfilling their vows- the spiritual and social obligations arising from their faith “(The truly virtuous are) they (who) fulfil their vows, and stand in awe of a Day the woe of which is bound to spread far and wide” (Quran 76: 7), Its these deeds of them that will lead them to the ultimate delights.

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