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Man and God

English book, p. 26

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

basis of the freedom to choose that God has given him, a person should become choice-less and powerless in front of God. Despite the freedom that God has given him, he should willingly surrender to God. For those who do this, the reward is Heaven. The Darkness Shall End! I n this world of God’s, a human being appears to be a contradiction. In such a world where the sun rises at exactly its appointed time, man says something today and then denies it the next day! In such a world where even from hard, dry stones water can be squeezed out, man cruelly oppresses his fellow man. In a world where the moon sheds its light on all creatures without discrimination, man behaves in one way with somebody and in another way with somebody else. In a world whose meaningfulness expresses itself in the fineness of the beauty of a flower, man behaves more cruelly than a thorn. In a world where the wind blows all around, like a selfless servant, man lives in such a way as if there is no other purpose to his life than promoting what he regards as his own personal interests. In a world where one tree never troubles another, one man never ceases from tormenting another. One person derives malicious pleasure in seeing another being destroyed. All this happens on a daily basis in this world. But God does not interfere in this. He does not end this contradiction. Seen in the universal mirror of His creation, God seems so very beautiful, but in the grief-filled realm of human existence,

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