Mohammad Rafoqie
Junior Member
by Mohammad Rafique Etesam
Allah Almighty Says in the Holy Qur’an,” He it is who fashioneth you in the wombs as pleaseth Him. There is no God save Him, the Almighty, the Wise.(The Family of Imran:6) Also Says,” He created the heavens and the earth with truth, and He shaped you and made good your shapes, and unto him is the journeying. (AT-Taghabun:3)
These verses reveal that the real former of the “human picture” is Allah, Who shapes the living pictures with body and soul. “Al Musawwer” is His praise and manner. He is not as the worldly painters who draw the pictures on the papers. They , participate and confront to Allah’s manner in real. So, Allah will Ordain them at the Day of Resurrection that then must create souls in their pictures. But that was quite impossible for them. So they will be punished due to that reason.
In this article, the man has been assumed as a “picture” why not, because he is a real picture formed by Allah, Almighty, and also when he passes away, he lefts behind him only his picture set in a frame as his memorial.
Human’s face shows many “pictures”. For example, sometimes he is a king having great dignity and rank, pomp and show, and sometimes he is a beggar, having a poor, miserable and unfortunate complexion, sometimes he is a dacoit, gives a flash of terrible face, heavy moustaches and bloody eyes. And sometimes, he gives a color of very liberal and bountiful man as he is a “Hatim Tai”, and sometimes he is a merciless and cruel person, and sometimes he gives a color of a kind and noble person etc.
Usually, it is noted that the “picture” of a pious man is bright and beautiful, and also a sign of prostration seen on his forehead. Almighty Allah Says in the Holy Qur’an,” Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves. Thou (O Muhammad) seest them bowing and falling prostrate (in worship), seeking bounty from Allah and (His) acceptance. The mark of them is on their foreheads from the traces of prostration. Such is their likeness in the Torah and their likeness in the Gospel” (Al-Fatah: 29).
The Holy Prophet (PBUH) asked about the recognition of the people of his Ummah at the Day of Judgment? He replied that he would recognize them by their bright faces, hands and feet, that had been washed in the ablution. (Al-Mishkat) It means that they who offer prayers for five times daily, their faces will be bright.
On the other hand, they who have not faith in Allah and His messenger, their faces will be black on that Day as the Holy Qur’an reveals,” On the day when (some) faces will be whitened and (some) faces will be blackened; and as for those whose faces have been blackened, it will be said unto them, Disbelieved ye after your (profession of) belief? Then taste the punishment for that ye disbelieved. As for those whose faces have been whitened, lo! In the mercy of Allah they dwell forever. (The Family of Imran: 107)
So, to make his “picture” bright and beautiful, the man should act upon the teachings of Islam so that he may be pleasant and successful at the Day of Resurrection. Because, “O you the honorable “painter”, perhaps your “picture” is uncomplete yet.