When the Mighty will be Brought Low

When the Mighty will be Brought Low

1985 7 July 10-11 When the Mighty will be Brought Low (543) When matches were first produced the manufactures wanted to find out the extent of their combustive power. So they took some wood and tested their matches by setting light to it. Soon the time came when scientists started making experimental guinea pigs out of animals, feeding them poisonous substances, putting parts of their bodies out of operation and killing them for purposes of analysis. Now the form that experiments take has entered a third stage. Man has now taken to experimenting with his fellow men. Some worldly powers have attained the status of “super powers”. With lethal arms in their possession, they feel entitled to test the effectiveness of their weapons on weak people. A recent NATO report showed how, in the Spanish Civil War, Hitler had his tanks and bombers used without restraint. The destruction which they caused to innocent people did not take anything away from what Hitler considered his success, for what he had wanted to do was test his weapons, and this purpose had been achieved. The same thing happened in Vietnam. The Americans used their helicopters in huge quantities in this war, the first time in history that helicopters had been put to military use. The result was destruction for Vietnam, but success for mighty America in their experiment. The effectiveness of their helicopter gun ships could only be gauged in action. This had been done at the expense of Vietnam.

Now it is the turn of Russia. They too have manufactured an advanced form of helicopter, and are using the country of Afghanistan to try it out. The relatively backward central Asian country has been converted into an arena in which Russia tests its most advanced weapons of war. Whole villages have been exterminated. Three million people have left their country and taken refuge in neighbouring Pakistan. But the Russians have what they want. The more destruction that they reap, the better they are able to test the weapons in their arsenal.

Is this world fated to remain in darkness? Can it really be that God will let the mighty continue to benefit for their might and the weak suffer for their vulnerability? As the Qur’an says, to think such a thing is to deny the very nature of God:

“It was not in vain that we created the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them. That is the fancy of the unbelievers. But woe to the unbelievers because of the fire of hell. Are we to treat alike those that have faith and do good works, and those that corrupt the earth with wickedness? Are we to treat the righteous as we treat the wicked?” (Qur’an, 38:27-28)

Those who are enthralled in their wicked ways will soon find out that God – not they – is master of this world. When the angel of death comes upon them they will see that in reality they had no more power than insects. The things that supported them, that gave them power in this world, will desert them. They will find themselves lying on their faces in the pit of doom. They will cry out, but there will be no one to hear their cry; they will seek help, but no one will come to their assistance.