Arguments for Messengership – Part 9
The Reasonings (page 122)
“If you would like this argument to be explained, then listen:
You can see that there is an order in creation, including the world of humanity, as well as in the animal kingdom, many members of species of which have been put in the service of humanity because of the reason given to humanity. Humanity’s superiority to animals in the following three points is a proof of the necessity for Prophethood:
The first is the interesting reality of the fact that the beginning of thought is the end of action, and the beginning of action is the end of thought. That is, actions give rise to thoughts, which in turn, lead to actions. Humanity has the capacity to be able to see the relationship between the cycles of causes and effects. In the light of this relationship, it arrives at new combinations and the forms or rules of new thoughts and behavior, as well as what we call laws which appear to be responsible for cause and effect. This is the mechanism of progress and evolution. Science is the ability to analyze those combinations or to be able to detect the individual elements and causes and effects, which form or lead to them, and the laws that appear to be responsible. Based on these laws, humanity can develop or produce new things. However, its capacity is limited, and its abilities are defective. Thus, together with these defective and limited capacities and abilities, the desire to satisfy all of humanity’s needs, and humanity’s innate ignorance and powerlessness, as well as the fancies, caprices, suspicions, and whims that pester it constantly, cause us to be in absolute need of the guidance of Prophethood. Only through Prophethood can the perfect orderliness of the universe, with whatever is in it and whatever occurs in it, be perceived adequately. The balance and order of human life depend on the ability to perceive this universal order.”
Discover and employ the universe for your own service to benefit from it. Our human qualities are valuable. The ability to reason, question and investigate. If reason is not accompanied with consciousness, then it means nothing. What makes the ability to reason worthwhile is the awareness that I am reasoning using my human qualities.
- Notice the ability of consciousness.
Human beings are speaking animals or reasoning beings as per some materialist scholars. They have reduced consciousness to reasoning which is nothing but brain activity. Example: human beings see through eyes. Yes, but the eye is just the physical matter. How can one explain the power of sight?
- Stop reducing yourself to body only i.e. matter!
The author is introducing us that there is a relationship between action and thought. From one aspect, action takes place first and then followed by thought and from the other aspect vice versa. As long as both lead to some logical conclusion with awareness is what matters.
- The result of any experience should point to the logical conclusion common to everyone.
- The result of a thought can also point to the logical conclusion.
Human beings want to have satisfactory explanations for actions to fulfill the purpose of their existence. Why are we attached to family for example? The family love is seen in the animal kingdom as well. A lioness protects her cub but will go hunt other animals. The quality of protection, love and compassion is present and experienced by every animate being.
- We need to question: What is the Source of Existence of this phenomenon?
Human beings look for answers to their questions in order to be consistent with their human reality.
As per the author, the law is really the order that human beings discover in creation. Human beings put laws into practice otherwise the laws are out there acting in the form of assumption.
Variations in human reasoning exist because of external factors.
Premise 1: The universe exists by itself.
Premise 2: Free open mind.
People following the start of either premise are satisfied in their conclusions. As long as one is looking for satisfaction (either in the wrong way), that is still human.
Everything within the order is changing. The relationship between the elements within an order may seem like a cause and effect relationship but since everything is given existence right there and then simultaneously, it would be wrong to think such. Again, what is the source of existence of each change? Example: Cold weather does not cause pneumonia. That is the order in creation which is brought into existence at once. Cold weather is created and so is the illness.
- The universe has an order and a Conscious Source giving existence to this order.
I need guidance in order to reach the ultimate of my existence. Our potentialities are in need of guidance in order to evolve into capacity. We need guidance in verbal form because not only does it speed up the process but also give us explanations to answers not available in the universe.
- Prophethood means that the Creator’s help is needed. Just as we may need a tutor to help learn a specific subject to speed up the learning process and comprehend the subject better.
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