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Two
tree leaves are lying on a table. Apparently, they appear similar but one can observe
their differences too although they might belong to the same tree.
Trees
speak to each other. They are affected by good or bad characters of people as
well as music. In each human, two kinds of senses function all the time. One of
the kinds keeps humans incarcerated within time and space and the other kind does
not impose any such limitations and human being can observe worlds beyond
material world. In fact, these two kinds of senses are functional in all
creatures.
When
the leaf saw me observe its nature, it said: 0 son of Adam, my ancestors had
mentioned that the human beings received God's best reward which other
creatures had not.
Having
created this Universe, Allah desired to bestow His trust on one of his
creatures. He addressed His creatures and asked, "Is there anyone who
could bear the burden of Our trust."
All
the creatures said with one voice, "We are too weak to be worthy of this
trust".
But
Adam willingly accepted this trust. Today the same Adam who was considered honoured
among all creatures has turned against himself. He is a source of discomfort
for other creatures instead of comfort. His actions create new issues and
problems every day. These issues are deadly for life. The lure of development
and growth has created a screen that hides diseases such as insomnia, tumor,
high blood pressure, kidney failure and many unknown deadly ailments.
In
good old times, when a patient would recover from a disease, the doctor would
destroy the prescription for ever. Now, the patient feels himself perpetually
sick. Medicines are taken as food. Even at the initial stage of treatment the
patient is told that he would have to take medicines forever. Earlier, doctors
would wait for patients in their clinics; now it is other way round.
Birds,
animals and other creatures of Allah fall sick but they do not become permanent
customers of doctors.
I
can say out of the experience of almost 90 years of age that no animal ever
needed medical accessories such as spectacles, hearing aid or pace maker. One
can smile at this example.
History
bears witness that animal never invented or used lethal weapons against their
own kind.
Dear
readers, at times the author feels emotional. You too feel likewise and forget
other things. There is a difference between a man and a human being. While
humans get to know the reality, men continue to struggle with confusion.
Leaves
do talk to each other. When they talk about the honour bestowed on the progeny of
Adam, they laugh at them. They wonder at the understanding of man who considers
leaves as deaf and dumb without realizing the difference between chattering and
understanding. The leaves recall the faithfulness of their elders whom they consider
more obedient to their Creator than man's forefathers. Their elders had
understood fully well that accepting Allah's trust and then avoiding
responsibilities to that trust and ignoring benefits of this reward would be
nothing short of ingratitude. And the peoples who are not grateful are
destroyed. Their lives are poisoned and they are fully defeated. They usually
have everything but they beg favours from others.
Having
heard leaves, I was stunned and speechless. My brain stopped functioning. After
a while, I asked myself, "are trees rational too like human beings?" Leaves
laughed at my thought and remarked that the ability to accept and reject
something testifies one's rationality Dear readers, what do you understand by
this?
Born
out of barbarity, bloodshed, carnage, dishonesty, prejudices, discrimination,
egocentricity and injustice, this ancient story tells us that we (leaves) are
more intelligent and rational than man. We know that mankind is more ignorant
and unjust than trees and the Nobel Quran too indicates this.
"Indeed,
we offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined
to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust
and ignorant." (33:72)
Isn't
it injustice that your home is decorated with beautiful things which are for
your use. But man has become their slave. Isn't it an injustice that this
Universe has been subdued for man but man is still imprisoned, dying and living
and living to die? Instead of brightening the whole world with his inner light,
man wants to darken it. My eyes became wet and I felt a pain in my heart and
all of a sudden I said I wish I were a tree leaf.
May
I ask my readers whether they agree with whatever has been written here?
Allah
Hafiz
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DIN AZEEMI
Articles of 'MESSAGE OF THE DAY' from Qalandar Shaoor Monthly
