Translation:
Him Who created you. Fashioned you in due proportion, 6003 and gave you a just bias; 6004
Him Who created you. Fashioned you in due proportion, 6003 and gave you a just bias; 6004
Translation:
who has created thee, and formed thee in accordance with what thou art meant' to be, 4 and shaped thy nature in just proportions, 5
who has created thee, and formed thee in accordance with what thou art meant' to be, 4 and shaped thy nature in just proportions, 5
Commentary:
4 I.e., "endowed thee with all the qualities and abilities relevant to the exigencies of thy individual life and thy environment".
5 Lit., "made thee proportionate", i.e., a being subject to physical needs and emotional urges, and at the same time endowed with intellectual and spiritual perceptions: in other words, a being in whom there is no inherent conflict between the demands of "the spirit and the flesh", since both these aspects of the human condition are - as stressed in the next verse - God-willed and, therefore, morally justified.
4 I.e., "endowed thee with all the qualities and abilities relevant to the exigencies of thy individual life and thy environment".
5 Lit., "made thee proportionate", i.e., a being subject to physical needs and emotional urges, and at the same time endowed with intellectual and spiritual perceptions: in other words, a being in whom there is no inherent conflict between the demands of "the spirit and the flesh", since both these aspects of the human condition are - as stressed in the next verse - God-willed and, therefore, morally justified.
6003 Cf. 15:29. Allah not only created man. but fashioned him in due proportions, giving him extraordinary capacities, and the means wherewith he can fulfil his high destiny.
6004 See n. 834 to 6:1. Having given a limited free will, He gave us a just bias through our reason and our spiritual faculties. If we err, it is our will that is at fault.