This is in principle the most prominent characteristic of lordship.

This is in principle the most prominent characteristic of lordship. Allah creates and then decrees how his creatures should live. He gives them the laws for living and specifies the manner of their life, also equipping them with the means for reaching maturity guiding them in this direction. The prophets stood by this very basic, fundamental characteristic saying: O Mankind! Your lord and Nurturer is the Lord of the Heavens and Earth. He has made laws for all living creatures.

He has given order to the lives of the heavens and earth and the creatures therein, and he also created laws for you, ascertaining your way of life. We said previously that every creatures way of life was ascertained according to its own structure and nature. In the case of one of them the Quran speaks of subjugation. The Quran sees inanimate objects obliged and subjugated in the powerful chain of the law of creation.

They follow the way to their perfection in this way never straying from it in the least because straying from the way that creation has ascertained for them is equal to their destruction: "Lo! your lord is Allah who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then mounted He the throne. He covereth the night with the day, which is in haste to follow it, and hath made the sun and the moon and the stars subservient by His command. His verily is all creation and commandment.

Blessed be Allah" the Lord of the Worlds!" 30 This verse begins with the words "your Lord" and after giving examples of his lordship such as the earths rotation and the appearance of day and night, he is praised with the attribute "Lord of the Worlds" "He constraineth the sun and moon to give service, each running on for an appointed term....."31 (Holy Quran 35:5) For another group of creatures Divine guidance is in the form of inspiration.

Animals live under the influence of Gods inspirational guidance and as thus follow the way towards their maturity, reaching its absolute bounds. The precise, subtle and sometimes extremely complicated way of animal life is all led by the inspiration of their "Lord". From the first moment of life until the final degree of maturity, and from then until death animal life continues under the radiation of this form of guidance.

In the Holy Quran we find an example of animal life as thus: "And thy lord inspired the bee, saying: Choose thou habitations in the hills and in the trees and in that which they thatch.