The Qur'an presents this relationship in two ways...

The Qur'an presents this relationship in two ways: Sometimes it describes it as a Divine act because vicegerency is Allah's favour bestowed on His creation. The Qur'an expresses it thus: "1 am about to place a vicegerent in the earth." In this verse the four-sided relationship has been described as Allah's favour to man and Allah's positive role in it, has been stressed. Sometimes the same four-sided relationship is advanced from another angle.

In the following verse it has been declared that this relationship has been accepted by man himself: We offered the trust (vicegerency of Allah) to the heavens and the earth and the hills, but they…