سرِ زیست بوسطتِ علمِ نجوم شجاعت عباس اسد

The Lord of the Universe had determined the entire order of His creation even before the creation of the universe. It was never the will of the Lord of the Universe to keep the knowledge regarding this entire creative process a secret; rather, this Gracious Lord determined and made public the fundamental order of all His exquisite creation, from beginning to end. One of the great miracles of the Lord of the Universe is that, in the entire creation, He has introduced the vastness of His thought and craftsmanship by ensuring that every body of all species bears no resemblance to any other body of its kind. Despite this miracle, He did not hide the knowledge of identifying the universe of infinite bodies and awareness of the action and reaction of every body within it from the reach of those who have a thirst for knowledge. It has never been the will of the Lord of the Universe from eternity that any body created by Him, upon arriving in this world, should struggle against incompatible circumstances and factors in this universe, fail to achieve its material and spiritual happiness and needs during its entire stay, and depart after completing its journey while being forced against its own circumstances and desires.

How could the One who introduced Himself by the name of the Lord Almighty want His creation to be unable to fulfill its desires during this temporary stay, and to return to its origin struggling daily with new troubles? Whenever the Lord Almighty has spoken in His Word, its application applies to the conditions and routines from eternity to eternity. The Lord Almighty has not termed the events contrary to nature, courage, and desires that a body encounters during this temporary stay as His own will or desire, but rather as the consequence or cause of the actions performed by that body itself.

In Surah Yunus, verse 44 of the Word, the Lord Almighty says:

إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَظْلِمُ النَّاسَ شَيْئًا وَلِكِنَّ النَّاسَ انْفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ

"Indeed, Allah does not wrong the people at all, but it is the people who wrong themselves."

According to the saying of Maula Imam Jafar Sadiq (peace be upon him), the essence of the statement is that man devotes the shortest part of his life to the acquisition of knowledge and spends the rest of his life on other matters. Whereas, most of the matters in which man spends his life's time are not his responsibility; rather, the Lord Almighty has taken them upon Himself. The sciences of benefiting from great inventions to live on earth and accessing other worlds do not provide sufficient material for earthly life; although the acquisition of all knowledge is man's right and important for him, the order of acquisition affects life. In the order of acquiring knowledge, the knowledge of earthly life should be given priority first, and then the remaining periods of life should be spent in acquiring other knowledge gradually.

Shujaat Abbas Asad

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