A Letter to a Dear One — Page 14
14 Letter to a Dear One earth and the light and heat of the sun, the light of the moon, the effects of the wind, the freshness brought on by rain, all join forces to produce vegetable or fruit. Due to similar effects, animal was created and so was human. When a human or an animal eats vegetable or fruit, the fruit’s certain elements become constituents of the human or the animal being. These elements thus take on human or animal attributes. When humans include an animal in their diet, a similar change occurs in the constituents of the animal, which take on the form of human elements. If you ponder over the universe you will find out how everything, in its own sphere, is working towards the completion of the Divine Order. We find delightful shapes in different species of life, which have all sorts of formation and link with each other. Out of all these varied forms of life and different parts of the universe that we contemplate over, even the aspects, which our apparent senses do not notice, human being is the focal point. Although humans came into being over many millions of years in the same way as the other animals, it is, as if the vast and varied resources of this universe were prepared for human use and human progress. All creation came into being for the purpose of the birth of humans and that is why humans are called the most eminent of all creations. It is often said that humans are made out of dust and water. This is not correct in the sense that a whole human body was made with dust and water and then a human spirit was blown into it. However, it is correct in the sense that the process of human birth started with dust and water. Although there were many phases from the initial stage to being human, but this initial substance of dust and water had the capability to be human from the very start. Having gone through very weak initial stages, this creation entered into the phase of being an accomplished animal, then a rational animal and then into the phase of wisdom. At this stage, it acquired the form of a human being. It has now been in this state for a very long period. When human being’s intellectual and mental progress reached a stage that was stalwart enough to receive Divine revelation, it was then that the most accomplished man of that era received revelation from Allah. A few simple social commandments were revealed to him. He and his clan were instructed to live life according to these commandments. This man was called Adam. In actual fact, the human generation did not start with Adam. It had started earlier during inferior stages and had progressed through to the stage of a human being. © a ñ rat Khal ī fatul-Mas ī h addressed this issue in detail at