SUPERIOR MANAGEMENT

SUPERIOR MANAGEMENT Count Your Blessings A member of CPS Tamil Nadu team, Maulana Iqbal Umri (Umrabad, Tamil Nadu) recounts his experiences and insights from his recent surgery. O N July 19, 2024, I was admitted to the General Block of Ramachandran Medical College in Chennai. I was suffering from kidney stones. A large stone got stuck in the duct and wasn’t coming out, causing significant pain and distress, which led to the decision for surgery. I’ve had this problem for fifteen years, but never received proper advice regarding surgery. Nowadays, surgery has become the ultimate solution for such problems, although it takes time to decide on it. The advancements in modern medical science, especially in the field of surgery, are nothing short of miraculous. It’s as if God has turned miracles into medical achievements. This event is proof of humankind’s conquest over the ailments of the human body, leading humans to the illusion that they have found solutions to all human problems. While this phenomenon should be seen as a marvel of human capability given by God, we observe that humanity is busy interpreting life without God. Indeed, these advancements are the pinnacle of human capability, but behind them lies the presence of a Creator and Sustainer who gives this whole event its true meaning. This is proof that humans are capable of utilizing creation, not reaching the status of the Creator. By using creation, humans have reached the peak of progress, and with the acknowledgement of the Creator, they can attain the eternal passport to even greater heights. But human negligence and the lack of the call to faith have given atheism a high status. I was wondering why humans deny God. Upon reflection, I realized that when humans go through moments of weakness, instead of discovering their vulnerability, they act rebelliously and ask why, if God exists, they are made weak and needy, or why they face difficult situations like illness. By posing such questions, they seek to compensate for their own weakness and then live as rebellious beings against God. Human vulnerability is a step toward discovering God, but humans take nourishment for rebellion from it. Indeed, there is vulnerability in human life, but the Creator of this state of weakness has also made full arrangements for its compensation.