Witness of the Universe

None of the major orbiting bodies ever collide with each other. To indulge in conflict is a purely human characteristic. The entire universe, for all its incessant action, heads towards a positive goal. Man, on the contrary, opts for such courses of action as lead to chaos and destruction. Two separate water bodies do not trespass upon each other’s territory. Even a herd of bulls moves and feeds within its defined territories. One does not cross over into the other’s land. It is man who does not want to abide by any laws. Honey bees accomplish their constructive work with exemplary discipline and by the strict division of labour. But man creates disorder by breaking rules. Ants and birds rely on their own labour for their subsistence instead of snatching others’ food, whereas man exploits his fellow beings in order to fill his own belly. No wild animal attacks and kills its own kind, but man does not shrink from shedding human blood. Even reptiles harm other creatures only when they have to defend themselves. Man oppresses his fellow beings irrationally, and adopts gluttonous ways in all his affairs, while animals eat, copulate or build abodes just to satisfy the basic need and urge. Animals engage themselves in their own specific spheres, while man is fond of interfering in others’ spheres. Scores of sheep intermingled with another flock will gather around their own shepherd whenever he calls them. But the human being is different from all other animals. When man is called to God and His Prophet, he deliberately ignores the call. Man’s existence, be it as small as a grain of mustard, is