The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times, Issue #22, September 2014 | Page 29

wealth and poverty, good health and affliction – are not contrary to his
analogy, but they may happen according to that sometimes.
You may find many good persons who are granted with wealth for
certain wisdom and lest people think that it is the atheists who are
provided with the means of subsistence while the pious are
underprivileged and thence prefer debauchery to piety. And you find
that many transgressors are punished when their transgressions and
harms increase against people and against themselves, as with
Pharaoh when he was punished with drowning and Nebuchadnezzar
was punished with getting lost and Belbis with killing. Allah may delay
the punishment of some evildoers and postpone the reward of some
good doers till the afterlife for some reasons unknown to people. This
does not refute the planned ordinance. Many rulers in the earth do this
without annulling their ordinances. In fact, their delaying of what they
delay and hastening of what they hasten are considered within their
right of statesmanship and farsightedness. Since all evidences and their
analogy necessitate that things have a wise creator then what prevents
this Creator from managing His creation? According to their analogy, a
maker does not neglect his craft except for one of three reasons:
inability, ignorance or evilness; but all of these are impossible in the
creation of Allah the Almighty for an unable one cannot make such
great, wonderful creatures, an ignorant one does not know what is
right and wise, and an evil one does not try to create and establish such
things. If it is so, then definitely the creator of these creatures manages
them, although much of this management cannot be understood by
people. The public does not understand much of the management of
rulers nor do they know its reasons because they do not know the
secrets of the rulers nor what is there in their minds. If the reason
behind a certain management becomes known, it will be found as right
and correct. If you have a doubt regarding some drug or food, and then
it becomes clear to you in two ways or three that it is cold or hot, will
you not judge that it is as you have found and then remove the doubt
from your mind? So what about these ignorants? Why do they not judge
that this world has been created and managed by a Wise Creator, and
deny that it has been created in spite of all the evidences before them
that cannot be counted? If half of the world and what it contained were