Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 37
— Part I 36 Allah is the One who has created death and life and between the two He has caused a constant struggle. These verses of the Holy Quran actually enumerate the principle of the survival of the fittest. As a result of this struggle, God determines which of His living creation acts in the most befitting manner. What these verses deal with is that in the struggle between right and wrong, right must emerge victorious and wrong must be annihilated. In comparative terms applicable to the evolutionary processes, it is the direction which would determine the fate of a living object. If a thing is moving towards death, it constantly loses some of its quality of life and the converse is also true. Between these two opposite ends lie innumerable stages of comparative life and death. These are the only two directions in which every living being in the universe is moving. Things are improving or deteriorating while they are moving upwards or falling downwards. Whichever life form moves along the course to a comparative state of higher consciousness seems to be moving in the direction of man. Every species of a lower order, when seen from the vantage point of a higher species, appears to be relatively closer to death. Each step that it takes in the direction of life is a step in the direction of comparative perfection and beauty. Although there is an end to everything which moves towards death, no end lies in the direction of life because this path leads to Allah, and Allah is infinite.