Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 80
79 6 Different Kinds of Balance within Man’s Body The Inbuilt Criterion for Good and Bad Previously we discussed verse 9 of S u rah al-Shams elaborating on one of its meanings. Now we turn to another aspect of the same. God has endowed the human physiology with the intrinsic potential to distinguish disease from health and creative phenomena from destructive phenomena. This system of discrimination works without the knowledge of human consciousness and as an ongoing self-flowing phenomenon. In fact, this applies not only to human beings but to all forms of life. Each species, whether elementary or advanced, is well equipped with an inbuilt ability which informs each individual of what is good for it and what is bad for it, within its own tiny world of the barest form of existence. Even the amoeba has its limitations of health and disease, what it should endeavour to possess, and what it should avoid and evade. But in man this is so highly developed and complex that even a cursory glance at its function is absolutely astounding. The process of selection and rejection is observed in perfect operation at every level of human existence.