Spirit of Islam · TRAGEDY OF MAN

TRAGEDY OF MAN

Spirit of Islam, September-october 2023, p. 36

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.

TRAGEDY OF MAN How to Destress? A CCORDING to the law of nature, human beings are created in such situations where they have to spend all their lives in hardships. Difficulty, hardships, and heartbreaks are essential parts of the creation plan of the Creator. No man has the power to prevent himself from a life of trials and tribulations. In this world, grief and hardship are parts of creation plan of God. This system is to remind man of the fact that the present world is not made as a place of luxury and comfort rather it is made as a testing ground. The present world is created so that man may pass through different situations or conditions. In these situations, it is being decided whether any person is eligible for the eternal life of Paradise or not. One who does not respond positively and rightly in these situations, is eligible to be separated from the rest and thrown into the dustbin of Hell. In the present developed world, the conditions of hardships are always present. But the people, owing to unawareness of God’s creation plan, do not understand its nature. By giving the wrong response they prove themselves in the eyes of God such persons who underwent the examination course but could not make themselves successful. In the present times, big institutions have been established, claiming to perform de-stressing, in order to relax people by stopping the function of thinking. But this is a kind of temporary solution to the problem. The practical solution to this problem is stress management. This is a matter of general observation that those people who have suffered in their lives engage themselves in human service or social service. As if this is a way of eliminating sadness, but this is not the right and desirable reaction to difficulties and hardship. Social service is human service and as such it is without doubt a praiseworthy task. But when it is seen from the point of view of the creation plan of God about human life, we find an unwanted aspect about the social service. A person who experiences difficulties in life and then engages in social service, his psychology is, to put it briefly, “Let no other suffer what I have suffered.” This psychology shows that man thinks every matter as simply a worldly matter. For him, sufferings are only worldly suffering, and the biggest task is to make this world a non-suffering place. Whereas this thinking is against the creation plan of God, therefore it is just not possible to

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