Thus we always read in the heavenly books, the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth. Humanity is created for eternity, not for eternal extinction The human race also has supreme importance. Human beings dominate in every part of the earth we have just described. Human beings order, display and ornament created objects according to their needs and desires. They catalogue and classify everything in all its wonderful variety, each species in its own place, and they do so in such a fashion that it draws not only the gaze of men and of jinn, but also the appreciative regard of the dwellers of the heavens and of the whole universe, even the admiring glance of the Lord of the universe.
Human beings possess a very high value, therefore, and importance in the creation.
Then, by means of their arts and sciences, they display the fact that they are the purpose for the creation of the universe. They show that they are the great consequence and supreme fruit of creation, that they are acting upon the earth in the capacity of vicegerents of God. Since they demonstrate and arrange in this world the miraculous works of the Maker, they are permitted a respite in it and their punishment put off despite their rebellion and disbelief. Because of the services they perform, human beings are granted stay for a time and the assistance of the Almighty. Human beings, endowed with a quality of nature as we have described, are nevertheless weak and impotent in the extreme with respect to fulfilling the demands of that nature and disposition.