The Call of the Quran
3. Witness of the Universe
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and by the strict division of labour. But man creates
disorder by breaking rules. Ants and birds rely on
their own labour for their subsistence instead of
snatching others’ food, whereas man exploits his
fellow beings in order to fill his own belly.
No wild animal attacks and kills its own kind, but
man does not shrink from shedding human blood.
Even reptiles harm other creatures only when they
have to defend themselves. Man oppresses his
fellow beings irrationally, and adopts gluttonous
ways in all his affairs, while animals eat, copulate or
build abodes just to satisfy the basic need and urge.
Animals engage themselves in their own specific
spheres, while man is fond of interfering in others’
spheres. Scores of sheep intermingled with another
flock will gather around their own shepherd
whenever he calls them. But the human being is
different from all other animals. When man is called to
God and His Prophet, he deliberately ignores the call.
Man’s existence, be it as small as a grain of mustard,
is a part of the universe. Therefore, no course other
than that followed by the greater universe will do
man any good. Where man chooses a separate path,
