Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 305
— Part III 298 The perfection of Adam as after having been created from clay only indicates the perfection of his physical evolution. Having achieved this, he is still not authorised to rule others. He is only authorised to rule others after Allah has breathed into him. Here 'breathing of my spirit' means revelation and Sawwaituh u (fashioned him in perfection) only refers to all the evolutionary stages which gradually transformed clay into a perfected human being. The medieval Muslim ulema have failed to understand the meaning of perfection. Perhaps they have been influenced by the crude Biblical account. They visualise the creation of first man as an earthen deaf and dumb statue made by a human artist. Like the artist, God moulded and shaped the first man by suppressing some features and highlighting others. Thus, by putting extra touches here and there, He added all the finishing features and gave him a beautiful human form. Until then he remained a statue without a sign of life. Then God said: 'I have breathed into him My Spirit, and suddenly he became alive'. This is a childish explanation of the verse, insupportable by the phrase used in the Holy Quran. How could God breathe His own spirit, or a portion thereof, into him? Alas! the medieval ulema did not realise that nowhere does the Holy Quran mention infusing life into him. Otherwise, at least somewhere, the Holy Quran could have used some other