The Contradiction Must End
Al-Risala (English), December 1991, p. 4
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
The Contradiction Must End
1991 12 December 4-5 The Contradiction Must End (411) “I was strangely moved ....”
As I stood on a mountainside far away from the city, lush green trees spread their branches all around me and the chirping of birds rang in my ears. Different kinds of animals could be seen foaming here and there. I was strangely moved by this sight. How great and perfect that God must be. I thought, who made such a vast and beautiful world, and who then made every thing and every living creature in it function strictly according to His laws.
How beautiful and innocent is this world. Here the birds sing. only those tunes which their master has taught them; the cat and the goat eat only those foods which were appointed for them at birth; the trees sprout and grow exactly according to the way ordained by the Almighty ever since the world came into being; the river follows the same course laid down for it for all eternity. This universe of God is a perfect collection and all things in it act, without any deviation, exactly according to the norms set out for them.
But man is in an entirely’ different category. His lips utter such words as have been forbidden by God. He derives sustenance from things which God has strictly prohibited. He chooses those pathways in life where his Master has clearly posted the sign: “No thoroughfare”. Man is a very tiny part of God’s vast universe, yet he goes against its laws, reveling in the perversion of God’s world, instead of trying to preserve and reform it.
This amounts to creating a contradiction in God’s non-contradictory world. This is to cause disharmony where there should be nothing but harmony. It is like causing a blemish to appear on a beautiful picture, like introducing imperfection into a perfect world, like allowing Satan to pollute a heavenly atmosphere with his evil.
The power of God and His desire for perfection which are in evidence everywhere and at all times in the universe, refute the supposition that this state of affairs (i.e. the perversion produced by man) will continue. God’s power will certainly not give man the licence to perpetrate such a crime. It is against God’s sublime conception of beauty and perfection to bear with such conduct.
The coming of the day when this contradiction will end is an absolute certainty. May God’s will be done in this human world as it is done in the rest of the universe.
