English book · Man and God

Listen to God’s Voice in the Language of Silence

English book, p. 11

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Listen to God’s Voice in the Language of Silence he loses all control. He wants to become part of the winds, to melt into the trees, to lose himself in the loftiness of the skies. But his limitations stand in the way of this desire. Perhaps heaven is this – when an individual is made free of his limitations so that he can enter that beautiful world of Paradise that lasts forever. The civilized world that human beings have made is starkly different from God’s world. The vehicles people have built emit pollution and create a terrible noise. But in God’s world, light travels at the astounding speed of 1,86,000 miles per second without making any noise or emitting pollution at all! Human beings live together in such a way that they always face various types of problems from one another. But in God’s world, the winds blow without coming into conflict with anything at all. We emit our waste in the form of carbon dioxide and sweat and so on and dump it into the outside world, but in God’s world, trees emit their ‘pollution’ in the form of oxygen, without which human and animal life would have been impossible. Flowers emit their fragrance as their ‘pollution’. We litter our streets with mounds of garbage, even though it is against the law. But in God’s world, everyday enormous amounts of ‘garbage’ are produced without anyone even knowing or noticing this, and this ‘garbage’ is recycled and reconverted into useful things. If you deeply ponder on these marvels of the universe, you will be struck by a sense of how utterly helpless a person is! And you will be struck by silence, too, being unable to utter even a single word.

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