“… The mould fashioned by Allah cannot be altered. That is the True, Straight Faith, although most people do not know.”
(Al Qur’ān – 30:30)
God, all His Wisdom and Authority, has appointed man to be His servant, having created mankind to serve Him exclusively. No matter what is done, it is impossible to alter the natural pattern inherent in man. Nor can man become anything else than God’s servant, nor can any other person or object become his god because of the mere fact that someone has chosen that person or object to be so. Man may make as many deities as and when he pleases, but the inalterable fact remains that he is the servant of none but the One True God. Out of folly or ignorance, man may invest whomsoever he wishes with God’s attributes and authority and regard whomsoever he wants as possessed of the power to make or mar his destiny. The fact is that neither anyone other than God is possessed of Divine attributes nor of the power to determine man’s destiny.
As for the present ayah, it can also be translated as follows: ‘Let there be no alteration in the mould fashioned by Allah’; that is, it is not proper for anyone to try to alter, let alone corrupt and distort man’s natural mould.
The expression ‘That is the True, Straight Faith’ means to say that to adhere to the true nature on which human beings were created is the right and straight way for mankind.