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A crowd has gathered to see the newborn cubs of the lioness at w
Karachi Zoo. Small children wearing bright and colourful clothes are standing
in front of the lioness's cage, delighted at being the cubs. The lioness
sitting next to her cubs, filled with maternal love, gazes at the human
children in the same caring ay she looks upon her own children. At times she
looks disapprovingly at her cubs' mischief and, with her glances, tells them to
stop. But the cubs cannot be stopped from gaging in their antics. Their
mischievous play and jumping around is providing human children standing
outside the cage till plenty of amusement. At a distance, the lion is pacing
gracefully. He is also feeling happy watching his cubs but shows restraint and
does not let his face betray any emotions. Nonetheless he, intently, watches
over his cubs.
As my wandering glance set upon the king of the jungle, I could
not help but be impressed by the glow and magic in his eyes. As my eyes met
those of the lion, I felt as if the thought-hearing waves in the lion's brain,
through the eyes, were colliding with his internal eye muscles and then those
waves were being transmitted onto the screen of my own brain, conveying a
message.
At first, I was a little worried at this situation, wary of how
a lion could convey a message. What could this speechless beast k) an
ashraf-ul-makhlooqat ['best of the creation'] like me?
As soon as the thought entered my mind that a lion is a beast,
the lion's intoxicated eyes started to stir up storms, and the transmission
became so intense that I was forced to listen to the lion's conversation. The
lion was conversing with through the mode of telepathy.
He sarcastically said:
O human, you call me a beast. Beastliness is defined by the fact
that I hunt animals weaker than myself and fill my belly. How strange is it
then that when a lion consumes meat he is called a beast; yet man, who for the
sake of his enjoyment shoots at the tiniest little bird and eats meat, is not a
beast!
My conscious started to shake with fear as I heard this from 11
lion. I really desired to say something to the lion in justific.it Ii u but all
my knowledge and all my pride at being ashraf –ul-makhlooqat collapsed
instantly. As I was thinking of attempt to escape from the waves coming out of
the lion's eyes, the cub’s mother, the lioness, set her gaze upon me and said:
O human! What is it that makes you so proud? Look—look at me! Do
not turn your eyes away from me. I may be a female, but it does not make any
difference. We are not overtaken by sexuality. We do not use it to amuse
ourselves; rather we participate in this act to fulfil our roles in the
creative mechanism of the laws of nature.
O person claiming to be ashralul-makhlooqat, listen! A few days
ago, a man from your species visited here. My husband here has somewhat of a
philosophical and logical disposition. Out of nowhere he got it into his head
to start an argument with that human, and began by saying, 'I am stronger than
you.'
The man replied, "No, I am stronger than you."
When my husband asked him to present an argument to support his
claim, the man took a picture out of his pocket and showed it. In that picture
the man was sitting on top of a lion.
The lion thought it over for a little while and then asked the
man, "Who has made this picture?"
The human replied, "A man has made this picture."
The lion laughed a mighty laugh that seemed to shake the entire
zoo, and then said: "0 human, how ignorant and foolish you are! You could
not comprehend a simple thing like this—had a lion made this picture, the lion
would have been on the top and the man underneath him."
The distraction of children's play and other noise in the
vicinity Ike my link with the lioness. And I returned from the zoo Ong not to
think anything of the matter, yet could not help but draw number of different
conclusions.
There is only One being who creates, and it is He who has
bestowed upon another being the ability to create as well, but it is an
indisputable fact that this second being is forced to utilize the same matter
and elements in his creation which have been created by the first, One and
unique being.
Man is that second being who has been given the ability I
create. Whenever man creates something—whenever h brings something into
existence—in one way or the other, it is influenced by what has already been
created by Allah. In other words it is by utilizing Allah's creation that
secondary creations are brought into existence. When two of Allah's
pre-existing creations merge together, or are forced to merge, third creation
comes into being. Take water and sweetness to example, which are two of Allah's
creations. When water and sweetness are mixed and merged, a sweet beverage
results the product.
Sometimes patchwork between two things results in the creation
of a third. Patchwork [in the form of crossbreeding between animals has
resulted in the creation of mules Patchwork [in the form of grafting] on mango
trees results in the many different varieties of mangoes. Similarly, there is
system of such patchwork established throughout the won When looking at this
field of patchwork one observes that the skill is prominently present in God's
creation, the human, an there is present a distinction between man and a tree,
or man and an animal, that man is able to perform this patchwork whereas a tree
is not.
People who are familiar with the principles of spiritual
perception know that when the eyes of the spirit open distances disappear. A
period of hundreds of thousands years is compacted to seconds. All the
evolutionary stag from the time of Adam until the scientific age of today pit
before the eyes like a motion picture.
While viewing this motion picture of human evolution, as the
spiritual eye leaves the age of caves, stones and metal, and scans the present
scientific age the spirit is struck by agitation mid distress, having realized
that the evolutionary stages which man has called progress, are actually not
progress at all. The object of this progress is not the welfare of mankind but
in destruction. There is no plausible justification for this fatal and
destructive "progress". Here, amassing vast wealth seems to be the
only objective. And when the spiritual eye settles on the image that man, by
creating test-tube babies, is busy in the patchwork [or grafting] of humans as
well, dark looming clouds of ignorance and injustice seem to permeate the surroundings.
The subconscious speaks out that the thankless human has reduced his status and
has placed himself on the smite level as mere trees.
One of the reasons God created trees is for them to be used as
fuel. In other words man, by degrading his own kind to the level of plants, is
forcing the earth to treat humans as fuel. An Allah the Exalted has bound the
earth to obey man, the mill continuously and consistently has been turning into
a vole ono [in response to man's own actions]. Indeed if man falls to change
his condition, the earth will burn down his species to ashes.
“So take a lesson, 0 ye who have
eyes." (Holy Quran ch59:v2)]
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
Science has made immense progress, yet many believe that, even with all of the modern tools at our disposal, human beings function at no more than 10% of their mental capacity. This leads to the question of what exactly it is that comprises the remaining 90%. Yet another question that arises is this: If it has taken man four and a half billion years to be able to apply only 10% of his ability, how long will it take for him to make use of the remaining 90%?