For example, we read in the Qur’an: .

For example, we read in the Qur’an: ...You bring the living out of the dead, and you bring the dead out of the living. And You give sustenance to whom You will, without limit [^5] According to the Qur’an, refuting Nimrod’s claim of deity, the Prophet Abraham said (to him): “My lord is He Who gives life and causes death.” ^6 . Of course, it is possible to suppose that man and natural environment can have role in the process of giving life and causing death.

The reason is this: in this world God usually acts through natural rules and cause-effect system.[^7] It is also possible to suppose that natural factors and circumstances may sometimes have role in something being created or brought into existence. However, it is only God Who truly and genuinely brings into existence or gives life[^8]. We humans have no control or even complete knowledge of our existence or life.

So how it is possible to suppose that we can grant existence or life to something else? Dignity of man Human beings have great status in Islam. They are honored by God[^9] and can act as God's vicegerents on earth[^10]. They are endowed with reason and freewill and therefore are responsible for what they do.

Therefore, humans bear the divine trust and can fulfill the goal of creation: We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to carry it and were afraid of it; and man carried it. Surely he is very unjust, very ignorant. [^11] This verse suggests that the main problems which man is faced when exercising his freewill are injustice and ignorance[^12].

Of course, God has provided human beings with the basic knowledge required to distinguish between what is (morally) good or bad[^13]. Man & the world: Human beings can benefit from the world and indeed every blessing of God including their own bodies and souls in a responsible way[^14]. Therefore, everything in the world which is at our disposal is both a gift and a trust. If it were just a trust we would not have permission to use them. Since they are gifts of God, we can use them.

However, we cannot waste them or use them extravagantly as it is the case with any trust. God; "does not love the extravagant" [^15] In addition to this, the Qur’an[^16] tells us that we are supposed to make efforts to improve the conditions of the globe as much as possible. Dignity of body and soul: In Islam there is a close link between body and mind, or, more generally, between the material and the spiritual.