The True Muslim –
             Was He Created to be a Blend of Good and Evil?

Today many people claim that man was created with both good and evil inside (from the beginning), and that without evil, life would be boring and impossible. To them this means the perfection of man and a world of peace is impossible and that anyone who dedicates his life for this purpose is foolish and crazy.

However, it is they who are foolish, for our God has clearly stated that He created only good in man (Nisea 79: “Whatever good ( O Man) Happens to thee, is from God; But whatever evil happen to thee, is from thy (own) soul …”); and that the present evil within man is from Satan and man himself. If we define good as that which produces harmony, everyone will have to admit it is impossible to make even a beginning (build something), if the beginning (or plan) is disharmony and destruction. Nothing can be built on an unstable, changing foundation. Can a house be built on quick-sand? Our universe on the atomic level has been built upon the harmonious relationship of atoms; if the beginning had been disharmony there could never have come into existence anything (only endless nuclear explosion).

Likewise mankind was created only to know harmony and God put into man’s “original mind” only the desire to want good. When this original desire for good (centered on God), was and is fulfilled, man would feel happiness. However, today man’s (our) desire is easily moved away from good to take another direction called evil, because we have gained a contradictory (disharmonious) nature within ourselves, and because we have grown up in evil environments and circumstances.

We also know this desire to go in the wrong direction does not come from man’s original mind, because when evil desire is fulfilled, each of us feels pain and agony in our conscience. Now matter how bad parents or teachers are, none of them want their children to grow up to be evil. Whenever man’s original mind takes an objective position to God, he comes to hate evil (due to the force of the conscience) and is thus destined to do good.

However, today we don’t find such men of one minded God-righteousness, but we find within all individuals two minds at violent war against each other; the original mind which desires goodness and a fallen mind which desires evil. This present situation of mankind we can compare to a cup. The structure of a cup is designed to contain liquids, not to spill them. If there came to be a hole in he bottom of the cup, then the cup would not contain any liquids, but would spill them out as fast as they were put in. Such a cup would be of no use, because of it’s having two contradictory purposes. Similarly, man was originally created with one purpose; to do good and not to do evil. From the viewpoint of the creator (God), if man was to gain inside his mind two opposing purposes (good vs. evil), then such a man of conflict would be of no value to God. Such a man desiring two opposing purposes couldn’t act to fulfill either of them effectively and would thus become a man of failure, immobility, and live in a state of mental suffering. Frankly speaking, our loving God of harmony would never have created such a man of inherent contradiction. This means that the contradiction we find presently must have developed in mankind after he had been created by God. To be exact, it was through the fall of Adam and Eve that mankind fell into this present state of contradiction and ignorance.

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