Why Such Lawlessness
in the Human World?
The strangest thing in the world is how people just love to boss others around, how cunningness seems to be the rule rather than the exception, how good-hearted people seem to count for nothing, and how sycophants rule the roost, while honest people, who do not hesitate to call the truth as the truth and falsehood as falsehood, have no respect or popularity here.
All this is happening in a world that, in its essence, is absolutely flawless – where a single tree stands as a stunningly beautiful model of perfection, where birds know of no other song but of beauty and peace, where the sun and the moon cannot help but pour out their light, where no star trespasses into the orbit of another to forcibly plant its own flag!
Observing this contradiction between man and the rest of the cosmos, some people claim that there are two gods: one, the god of light, and the other, the god of darkness. Some others argue that there is no god at all. If there were truly a god, they maintain, why is there such lawlessness in the human world?
But the reality is that this world is a testing-ground, where we are being constantly examined. The ideal world will come after this one, after death. The whole of creation other than man is a preliminary glimpse, as it were, to that ideal world. Just as the rest of creation fully obeys God, in the world to come human beings will do the same. As of now, in the present world, they enjoy God-given free will. They can choose to obey God, like the rest of creation, but they can also choose to disobey Him. The test that they are being constantly put to in this world is about what choice they make using this freedom.
In order to be tested in this world, it is necessary that a human being should have full freedom of action. It is as a result of this freedom that someone chooses to walk on the straight path, while someone else opts for a crooked one. But after the Day of Judgment only those people will be admitted into the ideal world of Heaven who provided evidence while in this present world of leading life in an ideal manner, of thinking and acting in the ideal way. Everyone else will be gathered together and dumped in a universal litterbin, just as rubbish is collected together and thrown away.
