Lawlessness in the Human World

LIVING IN GOD’S NEIGHBOURHOOD 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 world will come after death. The whole of creation other than man is a preliminary glimpse, as it were, of that perfect world. Just as the rest of creation fully obeys God, human beings will do the same in the world to come. As of now, in the present world, they enjoy God-given freedom. They can choose to obey God, like the rest of creation, but they can also choose to disobey Him—the test they are constantly given concerns their choice to use this freedom. To be tested in this world, it is necessary that human beings should have complete freedom of action. So, some people use their freedom correctly, while others misuse it. But after the Day of Judgment, only those who used their