Now we can see whether there exists somebody’s right on...

Now we can see whether there exists somebody’s right on Allah or whether there is any right of the creatures from the very beginnings so that cruelty has arisen out of the suppression of this right. Were we present beforehand or did we have something beforehand which has been taken away from us? True, there is some differentiation between the creatures.

Some are minerals, some are plants, some are animals and some are human beings, but none of these creatures possessed any existence or right before its birth and which is supposed to have been usurped. Take for example a big carpet which we cut into small pieces. It will then be said that this carpet which originally was big has lost its originality of being big by having been cut into pieces.

But in the case of a carpet which was already made small, it cannot be complained as to why it has been made small because before that it had no existence at all and when it was brought into existence it was made small already. Thus, this small carpet from the beginning had no quality of being big so that it was deprived of something which it possessed. Allah, the All-Wise, has created all his creatures with differences when none of them had existed beforehand or had any claim or right.

Allah established a system of life cycles with cause and effect and set a particular line of action for every creature. He never makes any discrimination between His two creatures or two nations as far as His expectations from them are concerned in regard to their obligations and responsibilities. Similarly, His reward or punishment is also based on justice for all.

He has taken into consideration the respective capabilities and capacities of each creature in His commands and accordingly He has fixed proportionate punishment for each so that there is no partiality or injustice done to anyone of his creatures. Again take an example of a factory which manufactures spare parts of a small machine and tyres of big motor cars also. Would you brand the factory owner tyrant because he manufactures small parts and big tyres?

Or can the small machine parts themselves complain of the differentiation? The answer to this is certainly negative. It is so because in this Machine Age we need machine parts as well as tyres. However, there was a time when none of them existed before and the factory owner made them or brought them into existence according to the need of the time for two different functions.