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Surah ash-Shams ayah 7

Arabic text

Wa nafsin wa maa sawwa ha

And by the soul and He who perfected it in proportion

The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah:

Then Allah makes an oath upon the nafs or human soul, and says that He created man in perfect proportion and according to its nature. According to a hadith, the Prophet said, "Every man is born in his true nature, then his parents make him a Jew or a Christian. It is in the case of animals, each of their offspring is without a defect and you will not see any of them with a cut-off ear." (Bukhari and Muslim)