ATH: Imam W. D. Mohammed(ra) Quran Commentary

"…God raises us up.  He creates us in this earth.  Our physical essences are of this creation, of this earth--in this physical universe.  Our conscience is born of this physical environment, this natural environment.  And God has already set the pattern of that growth, that progress, in the physical matter that we are from--- and, also, in our biology, and, also, in the spiritual makeup that lives in this biology.  It all connects brothers and sisters.

The physical matter has the pattern. That pattern comes into me and I become a living being. That pattern is now in me as a physical living being.  The pattern is in my physical physiology, now it reaches my mental make-up, my conscience.  And, now, it begins to set the pattern of my conscience.  God has designed all of this!!  And it brings us up step by step.  We become a part of a social order, living and interacting with each other.

And, the influences that we exert on each other affect the way that we conform to that pattern that Allah has set our creation upon.  The Holy Qur’an--chapter 30, verse 30, tells us that in a very few words and very clearly.  It tells us that ' God has created the human being on that pattern that he has established the universe on.'  And on the same pattern which he has patterned, he has placed the religion upon. The religion co-insides with the pattern.  The religion is just a higher expression or a revelation of that same pattern .  And that is the life we must live.   So, the outward life we live is told internally.  All praises is due to Allah!!" IWDM