Chapter Four
The Purpose of
Touch
"O mankind! We have created you from
a male and a female, and made you into
nations and tribes, that you may know
one another. Verily, the most honorable
of you with Allah is that believer who has At-Taqua (Piety).”"Allah, it is He Who has made for you the earth as a dwelling place and the sky as a
canopy, and has given you shape (form) and made your shapes good looking...""He created the heavens and the earth, and He shaped you and made good your
shapes, And to Him is the final return." (Q. 49:13; 49:64; 64:3)Nikah or Zawaj**?**
The verse does not say "We have created you from a part - male and a part -
female" nor is it written that Adam was created androgynous as claim the
Gnostic magi. There is absolutely no ambiguity or duality in authentic gender
identity as pristinely ordained and created by Al’Mussawwir, the Bestower of
Form. As the verses imply, the first marriage was conceived in Divine love
and the contextual implication is that ' At-Taqua ' (piety) attended the
marriage and was later imparted to subsequent generations as a product of
the romance Allah established between the perfectly male Adam and
perfectly female Eve ― both of whom were also perfectly “good looking
shapes.”
The purpose of this divinely guided conjugation of human reciprocals appears
to be the expression of human submission, trust and faith in our Creator and
that the lot of us exists for reasons other than suffering, death and
annihilation. This is chiefly accomplished by means of the flesh through the
senses of “touch” and “pleasure” – physical and metaphysical – that naturally
incline us towards the attainment of At-Taqua when not perverted. Without