Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 23
— Part I 22 because historically it does not exist. Again they do not enlighten as to how the natural phenomenon of reproduction played its role in that subverted community. All they tell the world is that one fine morning they all died suddenly and disappeared, along with the remains of that unfortunate township. It happened so completely that no trace of them remained for the poor archaeologists to dig for. But among the old scholars, Muj a hid seems to have found the right answer when he explains that God did not command them to become actual apes, but just as foolish or shameless people are derided as being donkeys or dogs, similarly these people have been given the epithet of monkeys 1. Again, Asfala S a fil i n could in no way have referred to their physical retrograde because obviously apes and swine do not belong to the lowest forms of life. There exist millions of life forms below them. When we say that man has been given the freedom of adopting or rejecting absolute justice, we certainly do not mean to say that he has limitless freedom in this regard. In fact there are many spheres in which this principle of absolute justice works by itself, without the least conscious control of man, and he does not have the power to change the course of those natural phenomena. This can be illustrated well with reference to the bricks of life of which all life forms are created. Within each brick there lies a vast and complex system of a character-bearing mechanism.