Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 66
The Animal Kingdom 65 When bigoted, small minded religious clergy or despotic, immoral politicians gain ascendancy they lose all sense of balance and justice. The Spanish Inquisition is such a case in point. Similarly the Muslim history of the Middle Ages is also blemished with such atrocious incidents, where governments took no measures to stop religious zealots from putting people to death merely because of differences of opinion in religious matters. Even a cursory glance at such beastly acts of human deprivation makes one shudder. Alas these chapters are not fully closed and still no one can say that man has now become so refined that now there is no danger of him reverting to his subhuman stage of conduct. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has itself been long subjected to religious persecution of a worse nature, making it no longer necessary for scholars to search through the pages of history for such evidence. As against this, we also come across examples of such cultured and decent behaviour on the part of man which brings to mind the Quranic teachings of ‘Adl, I h s a n and I t a ’i Dhil-Qurb a. Even when on the whole man seems to be sliding down the course of moral degradation, there are such singular examples of excellence that one’s confidence in man’s future is restored. There is an interesting story which can be related here. A story it may be, but whoever wrote it provided