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Islam Doctrines on Equality, Realism, Wisdom and Mysticism (3) - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Islam Doctrines on Equality, Realism, Wisdom and Mysticism (3) 2023-04-16 366 Views Islam , Equality , Mysticism , Islamic doctrines In this article titled “Islam Doctrines on Equality, Realism, Wisdom and Mysticism”, we shall continue with other relevant issues on the topic here.

If we investigate in the same manner all of the creatures of the world one by one it will become perfectly obvious that for each of them there is a way peculiar to itself through which it reaches the limit of its own perfection, and that from the first day of its coming into being it is attracted towards its end.

In its development it never goes astray nor does it change its direction, as if, for example, an almond shoot could develop into a horse or a horse could go to sleep one night and wake up the next morning an almond tree. Rather every creature is guided toward its final goal by means of creation itself, and in traversing this path of development, it never falls into error.

The path which has been laid out for each creature leading to its final goal is one which is in conformity with the means and potentialities with which it was provided by its own nature. These means allow it to attract what is of benefit and repel what is harmful and threaten its existence.

Chickens eat grain, sheep and cattle feed upon forage, and wolves, leopards and hawks hunt for game, for each is equipped with particular digestive systems which are proper only for particular nutritive substances. In the same way, birds defend themselves with their beaks, sheep and cattle with their horns, scorpions and bees with their stings, lions and leopards with their teeth and claws, and deer by flight, for the defensive equipment of each of them, is just this.

In summary, each of these creatures moves in its life towards a particular goal and end. It performs actions in which the equipment provided by its very existence guides it, and the nature of which this equipment determines.

This guidance and determination is the same general guidance and determination that the Quran has referred to and attributed to the Creator: “Our Lord is He who gave unto everything its nature, then guided it a right.”(1) “Who createth, then disposeth; who measureth [i.e., determineth], then guideth.”.(2) Obviously, man also, who is one of the species of creation, is not an exception to this general rule.