God and His Creation Plan

is abled in a different manner. Louis Braille, who invented the Braille system of writing for the visually impaired, was blind. When John Milton wrote his magnum-opus Paradise Lost, he too was blind. There are newer ways of providing education for the mentally-challenged children. The parents of such children should be aware of the world they are living in. Parents only know of pampering; they should rather discover the quality their children possess and should nurture that particular quality. And if a person is disabled on one account, he is super-abled on other accounts. The journey of a human being is replete with all kinds of misuse of freedom by him. Does this not show that it is inherent in man’s nature to cause atrocities? W hen man was granted freedom, it was implicit that there would be misuse. The Quran says: When your Lord said to the angels, ‘I am putting a successor on earth,’ they said, ‘Will You place someone there who will cause corruption on it and shed blood?’ (Quran 2:30) But God also placed a check in human nature which was a guarantee that man would not take to 100% evil and would take a U-turn to make a situation positive. This check is the conscience, which is the ability to distinguish right from wrong. I feel all the time that I am falling short of God’s expectations and I feel guilty. T his attitude describes the sunnah, or the way, of the Companions of the Prophet. All the Companions used to lead their lives with a feeling of deficiency. It is this feeling that gives you the motivation to do more. If you feel satisfied with yourself, your development will hit a roadblock. Why should the Quran be distributed to all mankind?