Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 90
Different Kinds of Balance within Man’s Body 89 cataract, glaucoma and other types of eye diseases. It can slow down the impulses carried through the nerves creating other dangers directly resulting from this lethargic state of transport through the nerves. Through everyday experience, we find that some diabetic patients remain unaware of pain they should feel as a result of spasms around the heart. By missing these signals they may be taken by a surprise heart attack. So talking of the balance of justice is not just an academic luxury. The persistent lack of justice or disproportion in balance is unlikely to go unpunished in nature. Alas, this lesson is ignored by man and he lives under the illusion that he can escape the consequences of injustice. But to that we will turn later. Protection against Disease Let us now turn our attention to certain other examples of balance created by Allah for the healthy maintenance of human life. Not only human life, but the entire universe of innumerable species of life are firmly controlled and run under the absolute and unwavering principle of balance. Where violated, inadvertently or intentionally, one will never fail to discover the emergence of disease. In His extreme beneficence, God has taken measures to provide an additional system of cushioning and resilience to the working of the human body, which strictly speaking does not belong to the