Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 53
53 'One of His bounties is the creation of the heav- ens and the earth, and of all living things between them, and He can do away with them when He pleases, and whatever befalls you is the conse- quence of your own actions; and God suppresses many evil consequences of your errors. ' 22 In other words God has created the sun, the moon and the stars and the heavens and the earth and all that is between them to serve man, but if he fails to take advan- tage of them or misuses any of them and thus suffers loss or injury, it is his own fault. In many cases God averts the evil consequences of man’s errors, and the evils suffered by him are not, therefore, due to God’s action but to man’s contravention of the laws of nature which had been devised for his benefit. Disease is also due to the action of the active and the impressible faculties with which man has been endowed. All man’s progress is due to the action and re-action of these faculties and if these faculties did not exist man would not be what he is. Under a general law of nature man influences all things around him and is in his turn influenced by all of them. Whenever in this process of influencing or being influenced he contravenes any of the laws of nature he exposes himself to the attack of a disease or becomes liable to some other ill or inconven- ience. God has not, therefore, created disease, but has created the law of nature which is indispensable to man’s progress, and disease is the result of an infringe- ment of this law. As this law is in itself the result of the 22 Al-Sh u r a , 42 :30,31.