This is because of the multiplicity of the beings found in it, and because it is the abode, the origin, the workshop, and the place of display and resurrection of hundreds of thousands of different kinds of constantly changing forms. For all the smallness of its size, it is nonetheless described as equivalent to the vast heavens. 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.