Lawlessness in the Human World

the rule rather than the exception, how good-hearted people seem to count for nothing, and how sycophants rule the roost, while honest people, who do not hesitate to call the truth as the truth and falsehood as falsehood, have no respect or popularity here. All this is happening in a world that, in its essence, is flawless—where a single tree stands as a stunningly beautiful model of perfection, where birds know of no other song but of beauty and peace, where the sun and the moon cannot help but pour out their light, where no star trespasses into the orbit of another to plant its flag forcibly! Observing this contradiction between man and the rest of the cosmos, some people claim that there are two gods: one, the God of light, and the other, the God of darkness. Some others argue that there is no God at all. They maintain that if there were indeed a God, why is there such lawlessness in the human world? But the reality is that this world is a testing ground where we are constantly being examined. The ideal