Why God sends
Messengers?
Generally,
every child born in this world is endowed with eyes to see, ears to hear, nose
to smell and breathe, hands to touch, feet to walk and a mind to think. All
those potentialities, powers and faculties that a man needs or will need, are
most carefully provided and marvellously set in his tiny body. Every minute
requirement is foreseen and provided for.
It
is the same with the world he lives in. Everything essential for his life is
provided: air, light, heat, water and so on. A child opening his eyes finds his
food in his mother chest, his parents love
him instinctively and in their hearts is an irresistible urge to look after
him, to bring him up and to sacrifice all they can for his welfare.
Under
the sheltering care of this system of sustenance a child grows to maturity and
at every stage of his life obtains from nature all that he needs and finds the whole Universe at his
service. Hence we find that for his every slightest and minute need, he finds the
provision in abundance.
But,
what about his biggest need i.e.the purpose of his creation..???
Our reason refuses to accept that God, who had planned for our smallest
of needs, did not address this question. How
it can be possible that He, who has provided man with even the tiniest of his
requirements, would not provide any help for this greatest requirement..???
There
must be someone to clearly tell man the purpose of his creation and meaning of
life itself; what are the proper ends of life and how are they to be achieved;
what are the proper values for living and how they can be attained. It can never be so that there is no one to answer these questions. And
it is not so.
God
in every age, through His Grace, Mercy and Benevolence raised for mankind men among themselves who we call as Prophets or Messengers of God and
to whom He imparted the true knowledge of His attributes, revealed to them His
Laws and Right Code of Living, gave them the knowledge about where do we come
from and to where we have to go and thus showed them the way by which man can
achieve the purpose of his creation and eternal success.
But,
one might say that every man by using his own reason and knowledge can find the
answers of the above asked questions. To say that I will find the way myself,
in spite of the presence of clear guidance from a Prophet, is a blind refusal
of the guidance given to him by God and if everybody tries to start from the
beginning, it would be a gross waste of time and energy.
We never do so in science and arts: why here? Even if man is equipped with
the highest faculties of reason and intellect and possesses matchless wisdom
and experience, still the chances of his formulating the correct views are
slight.
For
example, look at the colour problem. The worldwas not able to adopt a rational
and human approach towards the coloured people. Even biology for some time was
used to sanction the colour discrimination. In the United States of America for the last two centuries the courts
upheld the differentiation.
Thousands
of human beings were coerced, gagged and tortured for the ‘crime’ that their
skin was black. Separate laws were made for the whites and blacks. They could
not even study under the same roof in a same college. It was only on May 17,
1954 that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that colour discrimination in
universities was unjust and against the principle of equality of man.
After committing heinous blunders for centuries man came to the view
that such discrimination are unjust and should be abolished. This is how the
human mind dealt with the problem.
On
the other hand, we hear a man saying, “O people, there is no superiority for an
Arab over a non-Arab nor for a non-Arab over an Arab: nor for a white over a
black nor for a black over a white except in piety (righteousness – God’s
consciousness). This statement was said more than 14 centuries ago, but unguided reason was able to succeed only in touching the fringe of
it after centuries of waste, losses and blunders, after
subjecting hundreds of thousands of people to indiscriminate segregation and
after degrading men and corrupting human society.
A
Messenger of God shows the right path, the noble course and saves man from
error and blunder. Mind accepts whatever he says, the
heart feels it is true; and experience of the world testifies to every word
that flows out from his mouth. He suffers for
the good of others, and never makes others to suffer for him.
Think
again…
And
We sent not (as Our Messengers) before you (O Muhammad) any but men, whom We
sent revelation, (to preach and invite mankind to believe in Oneness of Allah).
So ask (you, O non-believers) from those who know the scriptures (learned men
of Torah and Gospel), if you know not.
With
clear signs and Books (We sent the Messengers). And We have also sent down to
you (O Muhammad) the Dhikr [reminder and advice (i.e. Quran)], that you may
explain clearly to men what is sent down to them, and that they may give
thought. (Quran Ch.16 Ver. 43-44)
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