The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam — Page 154
148 righteous or disobedient, will be bestowed a visible body. That day has been appointed for the perfect manifestations of God, when every person will get to know the Being of his Lord fully, and everyone will arrive at the climax of his recompense. This should not be a matter for surprise for God has every power and does whatever He wills, as He has said: اَوَلَمْ يَرَ الْإِنْسَانُ اَنَّا خَلَقْتُهُ مِنْ نُّطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُّبِينٌ وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلًا وَ نَسِيَ خَلْقَهُ قَالَ مَنْ يُحْيِ الْعِظَامَ وَهِيَ رَمِيمٌ قُلْ يُحْيِيهَا الَّذِي أَنْشَأَهَا أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَ هُوَ بِكُلِّ خَلْقٍ وَهُوَ عَلِيمُ 1920 أوَلَيْسَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَوتِ وَالْاَرْضَ بِقَدِرٍ عَلَى أَنْ يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُمْ بَلَى وَهُوَ الْخَلْقُ الْعَلِيمُ إِنَّمَا أَمْرُهُ إِذَا أَرَادَ شَيْئًا اَنْ يَقُولَ لَهُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ فَسُبْحَنَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ 0 193 192. Does not man see that We have created him from a mere sperm-drop? Yet lo! he is an open quarreller! And he coins similitudes for Us and forgets his own creation. He says, 'Who can quicken the bones when they are decayed?' Say, 'He, Who created them the first time, will quicken them; and He knows every kind of creation full well, (The Holy Quran, Yā Sin 36:78-80) 193. 'Has not He Who created the heavens and the earth the power to create the like of them?' Yea, and He is indeed the Supreme Creator, the All- Knowing. Verily His command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, 'Be!,' and it is. So Holy is He, in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things. And to Him will you all be brought back. (The Holy Quran, Yā Sīn 36:82-84)