Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 74
Further Evolution of Man 73 message earlier people could have received from this verse that belonged to an age yet to dawn. The theme is further developed in Surah al-Qiy a mah: Nay, man is fully aware of his ownself; Even though he puts forward his excuses. (S u rah al-Qiy a mah; Ch. 75: Vs. 15-16) That is to say that man may hide behind his excuses, yet he has the ability to discover the ulterior motives behind his intentions. Again the Holy Quran speaking of the same innate capacity of man to understand himself, declares in S u rah al-Shams: And He revealed to it what is wrong for it ( Fuj u r) and what is right for it (Taqw a ). (S u rah al-Shams; Ch. 91: V. 9) This means that God has imbued in every soul the ability of knowing what is good for it and what is bad for it; what he should do and what he should abstain from doing. Hence, in referring to the innate messages computed into his nature, man is capable of judging right from wrong. In other words, God has instilled in man’s nature the faculty of intuition which warns him of the ever