What is the wisdom of creating mankind?
The Ottoman Shaykh al-Islam Kemālpāshazāde (d.940/1534) in his treatise on creed provides a small summary:
-God was a hidden secret→He wants to be known→creates creation.
-Of God’s Names, Light is manifested→from which...
→from which He creates the Muḥammadan Reality→from which He creates all existence→Mankind is the best part of this creation→Mankind cannot escape that it needs to settle for rest as it has a body→a body needs a place→earth is created as its place on which Man is created→
→Man also needs food, but on dry earth nothing grows→so God creates the sky from which rain falls so plants can grow→of this all kinds of foods can be acquired→so this is also why God created mankind, to eat this food→some are grateful&obey&worship God→so God gives them...
→so God gives them an honorable place full of blessings wherein He reveals His beauty (the secret He wanted to be known), this place is heaven. Others are ungrateful&disobey→so God gives them an evil place full of punishments, this place is hell.→So God does all these...
...all these matters and interests for the sake of mankind.
Ibn Kamāl Pāshā, al-Munīr fī al-Mawā‘iẓ wa al-‘Aqā’id (Istanbul: Dār al-Lubāb, 2018), 46–49.
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