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Chapter 7

The Privileges of Man's Intellectual Position and the
Secrets of his Success

Have you pondered how excellent man's original position is? Some superficial observers, however, as soon as they have acquired a limited knowledge for explaining and understanding some parts of biology and other sciences, think that they have arrived at an understanding of humanity's excellent station. This is itself a complete error. Becoming acquainted with the truth about humanity is quite a different thing.

To better pay attention to and sooner understand the spirit of this discourse, can anyone tell us please how man, with all his intelligence, can be malevolent at one time and benevolent at another? Why does this happen? What insidious things still drive this faultless being to the pit of cruelty, cannibalism, and other atrocities?

In order not to be intimidated by lengthy discussion, it is appropriate to say that man has not known his own self yet. Do you consider it as a result of knowing humanity's station, that at least four to five thousand airplanes, millions of tons of explosive materials and other mechanized weapons were consumed in wars in Korea, Vietnam and so forth? The expenses wasted there were double or triple the capital capable of enriching all the poor people on earth. They destroyed millions of living creatures including man. Can this be considered as indicative of knowing humanity's station? Of course not!

We should say that man has not tried to censor his corrupt desires and has not subdued them. Therefore, man's offspring should not be able to fulfill humanity's wishes for peace and happiness, through the progress achieved in secular sciences unless they have really perceived the divine knowledge.

1. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who, through the Special Grace and Favor of Mighty and Glorious God, has surpassed the two primary categories of beings, which are in greater quantity and quality.

These two classes are:

First, The Inanimates: sand, rocks, mountains, planets, stars, and galaxies, etc.

Second, The Animates: from the microbe on up to the elephant on the land; from the mosquito to the ostrich in the air, and from the smallest fish in the ocean up to the largest mammal, the whale.

Through His Grace, man has surpassed all these tens of thousands of machines. He Almighty, through His Mercy, has created man in the most proficient human form.

2. Question: What is the Muslim's station?

Answer: Almighty God has bestowed additional mercy upon the faithful one. He Almighty has created him from the beginning under the initial conditions in the circle of Mercy, especially in the Militant Academy as followers of Quran, jurisprudence, and the confession for monotheism. More especially, God has graced those who, during the time of Islam's poverty, make great physical, economic, and verbal efforts to spread Truth. They do it with high ambition, as did the first followers of Islam, based on scholastic reasons, logic, and good deeds.

3. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who knows everything by a name and title. If the thing does not have a name, immediately he gives it a name; according to -

"Almighty God taught to his holiness Adam, peace be upon him, the names of all things (the secrets of all things)" etc. (Quran 2:21)

4. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is in possession of a brain which can store in its memory up to one or two hundred thousand words, and more. He can transfer its contents from his brain to his tongue, like onto the cassette of a cassette player, though without any rotation.

5. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who upon hearing the names of things can remember the corresponding things with some of their specifications and perceptible qualities. He is able to understand and perceive them either in brief or in detail.

6. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being, to whose heart and brain, blessed by,

"Almighty God taught to his holiness Adam the names of all things (the secrets of all things)" etc., Exalted God has bestowed the ability to discover all things and the power to understand their secrets and natures. He has bestowed this upon man, so that he may benefit from other things, that He may make him indebted, and that man may obtain the exalted knowledgeable station. Most deprived people, however, consider this ability to be an outcome of their own thoughts, and they deny it as being bestowed to them by the Glorious God.

7. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the only being who can express his heart through drawings and writing, and Morse codes etc., to others, regardless of a person's presence or absence. In the presence of the person, he can convey his messages even through the motions of the eye and the eyebrow, or with special phrases and words.

8. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the only being for whose use, the best kinds of fruits, trees, minerals, grains, and all other things, including animals, are created. Man sees his domination being established in all these things. Almighty God has granted all His favors to man, but man unfortunately has not fulfilled the required servitude and has not acquired the necessary Insight into Him.

9. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the secondary artificer of things on the earth. He builds the necessary things out of the raw materials first created by the Sacred Supreme Being, and puts them to his own use.

10. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the only being who, besides having the best and ultimate use of things on the earth, has access to the sealed inner reservoirs of the earth as well. Man has made and is still making amazing and necessary utilizations of these minerals.

11. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being whose continuation of works and different thoughts, provided they are worth following, will often be completed by sound successive generations.

12. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who needs a social life in order to secure mutual well-being. This has brought him much comfort. If man can generate this social life worldwide, it will be much better.

13. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the only being who must concern himself with family and tribal relationships, and even with wider relationships at the national and international levels. He has these concerns, for he has therefrom his inward and outward purposes.

14. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the only being who can be an imitator of most voices and motions. He can reflect them, either directly with his own organs, or indirectly by means of tools and instruments.

15. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the only being who, besides the inherent gifts and the formal and spiritual discoveries, can benefit from another's experiences.

16. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who can illuminate the inner darkness of everything by using artificial or natural light in whatever way he wishes. But often he has failed to illuminate the dark depths of ignorance, unawareness, and cruelty with the light of guidance.

17. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who is capable of making the unpleasantness of heat and cold agreeable to himself, or even of making it moderate and pleasant, through instruments. But he is not easily able to control the coldness of anger and the heat of lust, or at least to temper them.

18. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who can express either in detail or in brief his outward and inward pain, or pinpoint the agitated area and describe it. But, he has rarely been able to know or to express the pain of remoteness from the Nearness of Almighty God's Presence.

19. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who, contrary to other living creatures who defend themselves using their mouths and teeth, eliminates opponents often by using different tools. But he has not built tools or instruments for his defense against the inward enemies, which often disturb him.

20. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who can use his species' understanding and experiences to improve his own life and that of the succeeding generations. This action has caused much progress.

21. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is able to consume not only soft edible things but also has domination over many kinds of small and big mines. He extracts these minerals completely, makes different uses of them for himself and then eliminates them, but he cannot eliminate the oceans, mountains, the planet Earth and his firmament.

22. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who has always made use not only of visible and large pieces of material things, but of tiny parts of animate things, such as microbes, and of inanimate things, such as the atom, etc. He has built astonishing things out of them. Sometimes, he has made and is still making advantageous use, and at other times, disadvantageous use for himself and his contemporaries.

23. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the only being among all living creatures who, in order to improve his future, expects the cooperation of his generation, his children, and his grandchildren, in order to secure his living. In a way, he is making an error.

24. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is inwardly a box containing the two principals of the Soul and the Ego, and the computer of Intellect. But outwardly, he is the cemetery of all the animals of the earth, including elephants and dolphins. Those animals, whether on the land, in the ocean, or in the air, are all his property, and sometimes, he uses them in one way or another for the better organization of his life. When these animals used by man reach adulthood, man eats them. In fact, the mobile cemetery of all animals is the stomach of mankind.

COMMENT In this chapter the following was elucidated: the ingenuity and masteries that the being named man or the vicegerent of Almighty God of the earth and time and all the hidden and exposed, possesses. It was also well clarified as to what purpose he was created and the reasons for which he has come to be here on earth.

On the basis of this criterion, please ponder for what task, and with what ability and mastery, have we arrived here? Now, we have changed the trajectory of the journey; and what errors we have committed! Instead of finding the Artificer, we are lost in an insignificant portion of artifacts. Finally, what level this heedlessness is at or will reach? What is all this insanity, despite our intelligence and the claim for civilization? Are all these tools for killing and all the plunder of mankind the results of sound intelligence? No never!

Do you realize that the Muslims and all the monotheists on earth are the first ones to be responsible for this? For, they knew the truths of monotheism's light but they made no effort to spread it. We refer especially to the followers of Islam, to whom all secrets of the path of Union are explained in detail, in more than 2500 verses in the Holy Quran. Unfortunately however, some group of human and jinni-devils has been driving mankind to become addicted to these deviations, one after the other, and has considerably narrowed his wide perspective. This is worth pondering. Now, it will be wise to further examine what will happen to this being. Where is he heading?