Complementarity….
Not Repetition
Allah, all praise and glory is to Him,
created the universe on the basis of complementarity and not repetition.
Therefore, talents and capabilities varied and man achieved progress in the
universe. Logic would have dictated that the world should live comfortably and
peacefully, because progress and development offered man the greatest fruits
with the least effort and in the shortest time.
Based on this reality is the world we
are living in a rational one? No, we find the richest country in the world and
the best as regards economic progress is the one teeming with psychological
disorders as anxiety, sadness, depression, dejection, nervous tension,
perversion and suicide. That is because the world we are complaining of today
does not live according to the Law of Allah but according to desires and
satanic allure. Therefore, the world is afflicted with hysterics, conflict,
stumbling and falling. Truly, the world and its events looks now as a
substantiation of the Saying of The Most Exalted, which means:
“Will not stand
except as one whom the devil has prostrated by (his) touch will stand.”
(Al-Baqarah, 2: 275)
Why then do not the thinkers
investigate the secret of this misery? Why do not they ask themselves about the
cause behind all this wretchedness when they have from the means of material
progress what may guarantee happiness to mankind! Why have not they searched
when they had to?
And if the calamity is general it
excludes neither an underdeveloped nor a developed country but it reigns in all
countries. Therefore, it must have a common cause and investigation must lead
us to the conclusion that the world has strayed from the Law of Allah, thus
worldly life became to us an end and not only a means. Also, wealth became our
purpose and not only a necessary means for the movement of life and making the
earth a prosperous place. For truly, wealth all belong to Allah Alone. None
possesses it and when we die we shall leave worldly wealth to worldly life, so
why then have people distorted its use and made it a goal itself? The answer in
words: it is detachment from the Law of Allah.
Worldly life cannot be an end, first
because it is a limited period that will surely end; second because its
enjoyments are but little and third because staying in it is uncertain because
you can not guarantee to live the next hour.
If we want to specify Satan’s mission
in a few words, its basis is to make us forget that Allah exists and that He is
All-Hearing, All-Seeing. Man never steals, commits adultery or fornication, or
kill while bringing to mind that Allah surely sees him and that He will
punishes him for his crime. Had he remembered the punishment at the commission
of the crime, he would have never dared. But Satan’s mission is to make us
forget that Allah exists, for the one who commits a sin behind closed doors
imagine that as long as he is concealed from people’s eyes then no one sees him
and forgets that Allah hears and sees and nothing whatsoever is hidden from
Him.
At the end of this chapter we say: the
way of Satan is to discover the weak points of man to pierce through. He
portrays sin in a picture pleasing and agreeable to the soul, enveloping it in
fake goodness. His chief concern is to entice the servants obedient to Allah,
and he never leaves them. He incites man with provoking thoughts. He whispers
to man what facilitates sinning. He adorns disobedience in his eyes. And if he
overmasters man he touches him and causes him to lose the harmony of his
movements thus his behavior turn into a kind of hysterics and floundering.
Satan has many wiles of temptations but Allah, all praise and glory is to Him,
helps His believing servants resist Satan and disobey him, and He leaves the
disbelieving servants to Satan to make them sin more and go further astray.
Allah, be ever gloried His Majesty and Might, neither helps nor guides a
disbeliever in Him.
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