The Qur’an For All Humanity
Creation Plan
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By contrast, human life is marred by oppression
and injustice. This is due to the nature of man being
different from that of the rest of the universe. Man
in this world is in a state of trial. Trial requires, of
necessity, freedom of action. It is this freedom
which enables him to perpetrate oppression and
tyranny in this world.
Tyranny in the human world is the price of human
freedom. Yet, without freedom, how can those
precious human souls who opt not to be unjust and
oppressive – despite the opportunities that present
themselves – be differentiated from the willing
perpetrators of injustice and oppression? Without
freedom, how can those who choose not to indulge
in insolent behaviour although quite free to do so,
be held above those who do not hesitate to stoop to
insolence?
Besides man, nothing in the universe is going to be
sent to heaven or hell. If man’s fate is different, it is
because, having been given the exceptional capacity
to distinguish between right and wrong, between
truth and untruth, he is a responsible creature. This
moral endowment is, in essence, the key to man’s
