b) Man's attention and great eagerness for his own perfection.

b) Man's attention and great eagerness for his own perfection. Some human beings have been successful in activating their potentials. These seekers of greatness and perfection have always saved human virtues from annihilation. According to this theory, man possesses both glorious, incredible virtues as well as evil and corruption.

The Human Nature in the Qur’an Some verses of the Qur’an show some of man's psychological elements and positive and negative aspects, not the nature and identity of man.

A few of such verses are: خلق الانسان ضعيفا “Man was created a weakling.”(4:28) خلق الانسان من عجل “Man was created of haste.” (21:37) ان الانسان خلق هلوعا اذا مسه الشر جزوعا و اذا مسه الخير منوعا “Surely man was created fretful; when evil visits him, impatient, when good visits him, grudging.” (70:19-21) It is impossible to take the true identity and nature of man into consideration using these verses.

In fact, since man's degrees of elevation and degradation are truly infinite, he cannot be totally discovered. The potentials and talents mentioned by the Qur’an express not only man's identity, but some of the characteristics and qualities he can show. If the Qur’an did explain the elements of man's congeniality and nature, it would not need to mention some exceptional human beings or condemn others. والعصر ان الانسان لفی خسر الا الذين امنو و عملوا الصالحات “By the afternoon!

Surely man is in the way of loss, save those who believe and do righteous deeds.” (103:1-3) The Qur’anic verse mentioning that man has been created of haste does not imply the nature or identity of man either, for haste is a certain quality about how we move from a starting-point to a destination; it is not an external, independent fact about the movement that can be considered a part of human nature.

Furthermore, the following verse cautions man for his haste, so if it were all or part of his innate nature, it would be impossible for him to give it up. خلق الانسان من عجل ساريکم اياتی فلا تستعجلون “Man was created of haste. Assuredly I shall show you My signs; so demand not that I make haste.” (21:37) Human Characteristics There are various anthropological theories.

One theory, pertaining to materialists, believes that man is a harmonious machine that has achieved perfection and complexity through the laws of nature. According to this theory, human beings should be considered just like other creatures, for he has no identity different from them.