Allamah Khattaabi Rahimahullaah states: “Al-Musawwir is that Being who has created His creation in different forms so that they can recognize each other (and differentiate between each other). Allaah Jalla Jalaalahoo says, ‘He fashioned you, then He beautified your forms’”.

The meaning of Al-Musawwir  is the Former of Shapes  and the Maker of Forms . Allaah Jalla Jalaalahoo has granted all of His creation special and distinctive forms and shapes. By this, they are recognized and differentiated from other objects. The heavenly and earthly creations are recognized by their distinct forms. Then the creation are divided into different types all having their own special forms. Then in one type, for example, human being, men, and women have their own forms. The form and feature of every man and woman living on the earth is so different that in spite of billions of people inhabiting the earth, every one’s feature is so different that differentiation can immediately be made. This perfect power is only from one Being, Allaah Jalla Jalaalahoo who has no partner. Just as takabbur (portraying greatness) is not permissible for any being besides Allaah Jalla Jalaalahoo, since greatness is only His  quality, similarly, to make figures, forms and photographs of animate objects is not permissible since this will be practically claiming partnership in the special quality of Allaah Jalla Jalaalahoo. 

In Surah Aal-Imraan, Allaah Jalla Jalaalahoo States:

هُوَ الَّذِي يُصَوِّرُكُمْ فِي الأَرْحَامِ كَيْفَ يَشَاء لاَ إِلَـهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ

He is the Being who fashioned you in the wombs as He wished. There is none worthy of worship besides Him, the Most Powerful, the Most Wise.

In this verse, mention is made of the perfect and unrestricted power of Al-Musawwir.  With great wisdom, He has created man in the womb of his mother in three layers of darkness. He  has fashioned and formed man in such a manner that amongst billions of people, each person’s features are different and distinct so that they can be recognized. The logical demand of this all-encompassing knowledge and perfect power is that only He  should be worshipped. Besides Him  no one else’s power and knowledge comes close to this stage, therefore they are not worthy of worship.

In Surah Zumar, the manifestation of the power of Al-Musawwir is mentioned:

يَخْلُقُكُمْ فِي بُطُونِ أُمَّهَاتِكُمْ خَلْقًا مِن بَعْدِ خَلْقٍ فِي ظُلُمَاتٍ ثَلَاثٍ

“He Made you in the wombs of your mothers, form after form in three layers of darkness.”

According to Allaah Jalla Jalaalahoo’s Knowledge and Wisdom, He made man’s forms with His Perfect Power, as and how He Wished in the womb of their mothers.  He Created some male, some female; some beautiful and some ugly as He Wished. In one drop of sperm, He  caused so many changes in it, creating eventually the form of man. Can there be any deficiency in the knowledge of such a Being whose power and knowledge is such? 

In this verse, some wisdoms and finer points have been alluded to illustrating the power of Allaah Jalla Jalaalahoo which is found in the creation of man. 

One: Allaah Jalla Jalaalahoo has the power to create man at once in the womb of a mother. However, due to expedience and wisdom, He  did not do so. He chose the gradual method of ‘form after form’, so that the womb of the mother, in whom this small masterpiece was being formed, could gradually accustom itself to bear this weight. 

Two:  This unique and most beautiful creation in which thousands of delicate machines and veins the size of hairs have been placed, in which blood and the soul can penetrate, has not been created like other objects in any open place, with the help of light. It has been created under three layers of darkness in such a place where never mind one’s gaze, one’s thoughts cannot even reach there.

فَتَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخَالِقِينَ

Thereafter Allaah Jalla Jalaalahoo creates love in the heart of the parents of the created being. The crow loves its ugly-looking baby, and the pigeon loves its child. It does not have any feelings of love for another more beautiful baby. 

To be continued In Sha Allaah