This Man
The call to Truth is a manifestation of God’s beauty and glory. Therefore, such a call should usher in a revolution in the human soul. However, man does not prostrate.
One of the sermons of Jesus Christ contains the parable of the caller and the invitee. It is as follows:
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’” (Matthew, 11:16-17)
The caller of God bathes in the sea of God. In this way, he can sing the songs of God in the world of God. He plays the eternal songs of God in harmony with nature. On the one hand, these songs are manifestations of God’s beauty and perfection, to which he should give a thrilling response. However, on the other hand, these songs contain God’s warnings, which move a sensitive person and make him cry.
The caller is a manifestation of God’s beauty and glory. However, man is so heedless that these things fail to move him. God comes close to him through the caller’s words, but he does not find God. He does not have the qualities of showing genuine gratefulness to God. He hears even the most soulful messages like a stone, not like the man to whom God has given the intellect to find the deeper meaning of these words.
The message brought by a caller of God is unlike that of playing a record. It is to bring about a revolution in the human soul, the intensity of which is stronger than that of a volcano. Therefore, his “songs” are not just songs but the sound of a divine shaking in the human soul.
However, perhaps the strangest thing in this world is that even such divine words fail to move man. The dayee lays bare his whole being in front of him, yet he remains blind. The windows of Heaven are opened in front of him, yet he is not moved to ecstasy. He is shown a map of burning Hell. Even then, he does not cry. God, Himself, comes and stands before him even then he does not fall in prostration before him. God has not created a creature more delicate than man, but no one is as insensitive as a man.
