Man’s Position in the Universe
English book, p. 33
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
MAN’S POSITION IN THE UNIVERSE as a lofty ethical virtue. Acknowledgement is a high level of righteousness, while a lack of acknowledgement indicates insincerity. In this sense, a person who acknowledges others maintains his status as a human, while someone who does not falls from that status. In the same way, the decision of the conscience or common sense is also accurate about the Creator. In line with Nature’s voice, every person should acknowledge his Creator. He should acknowledge the manifold blessings of his Creator—all that he owes to Him. He should consciously recognize and be grateful for all that His Creator has given him. He should feel this in his heart and openly announce it through his tongue. Acknowledging God is in accordance with human Nature, while non-acknowledgement deviates from it. In the same way, every person experiences that his conscience is a moral criterion that, at every opportunity, is bearing witness. When a person lies, his conscience scolds him. On the contrary, if he speaks the Truth, it becomes a means for him to feel at ease. The conscience knows injustice to be always evil and justice to be always good. The conscience expresses its displeasure with dishonesty and its satisfaction with honesty. The conscience knows violence to be inhumane and peace to be good. The conscience knows hate to be wrong and love to be a blessing. The conscience rebuts anger and hails forgiveness. In the same way, when man surveys the world around him, he finds that besides him, all creatures are firmly bound by the law of their Creator. From the seas and the lands to the vast skies, all creatures are, in perfect discipline, doing just what they have been made to do by the Creator. No creature, big or small, deviates even a fraction of an inch from this discipline. From the

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