- All languages are a blessing from God
- All languages are a blessing from God
All languages are a blessing from God and he has dispersed his creation throughout the planet by equipping them with the use of varying tongues:
[ And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your languages and colors. In this are signs for those who know ]
[ The Quran 30:22 ]
(30:20) And of His26 Signs is that He created you from
dust and behold, you became human beings, and are multiplying around (the
earth).27
26. It should be noted that from here to the end of (verse 27),
the signs of Allah that are being mentioned, on the one hand, point to the
possibility and occurrence of the life Hereafter, in the context of the
foregoing discourse. And on the other hand, the same sings also point to the
reality that this universe is neither Godless nor under many gods, but One God
alone is its Creator, Disposer, Master and Ruler. Thus, this section (Ayats20-27)is fully connected with the discourse preceding it and the discourse
following it.
27. That is, the stuff from which man has been created is nothing but a
few dead substances which are found in the earth, like carbon, calcium, sodium
and a few other elements like them. With their combination a wonderful being,
called man, has been raised up, and in him have been placed great powers of
sentiments, consciousness, and imagination. None of which can be traced back to
any of the constituent substances of his physical being. Then, not only has
just one man so risen up by a mere accident, but in him has also been placed
that wonderful procreative power by which millions and billions of human beings
are coming continuously into being bearing the same physical structure and
capabilities and possessing countless hereditary and personal characteristics.
Therefore, O man! Does your intellect approve that this extremely wise creation
has come into being of itself without the creative power of a Wise Creator? Can
you say, being in your senses, that making a wonderful design of the creation
of man and bringing it into effect and rendering the countless powers of the
earth and heavens favorable and subservient to human life could be the result
of the thinking and design of many gods? And will you be in your right senses
when you think that the God, Who has brought man into being from absolute
nothingness, will not be able to raise the same man back to life after giving
him death?
(30:21) And of His Signs is that
He has created mates for you from your own kind28 that you may
find peace in them29 and He has set between you love and mercy.30 Surely
there are Signs in this for those who reflect.
28. That is, the Creator’s perfect wisdom is such that He has
not created man in one sex only but in two sexes, which are identical in
humanity, which have the same basic formula of their figure and form, but the
two have been created with different physical structures, different mental and
psychological qualities, and different emotions and desires. And then there has
been created such a wonderful harmony between the two that each is a perfect
counterpart of the other. The physical and psychological demands of the one
match squarely with the physical and psychological demands of the other.
Moreover, the Wise Creator is continuously creating the members of the two
sexes in such a proportion since the dawn of the creation that in no nation and
in no region has it ever happened that only boys or only girls may have been
born. This is one thing in which human intelligence has absolutely no part to
play. Man cannot at all influence the course of nature according to which girls
continue to be born with the feminine qualities and the boys with the masculine
qualities, which are perfectly complimentary to each other, nor has he any
means by which he may change the proportion in which men and women continue to
be born everywhere in the world. The working of this system and arrangement so
harmoniously and perpetually in the birth of millions and billions of human
beings since thousands of years cannot be accidental either, nor the result of
the common will of many gods. This is a clear indication of the reality that
One Wise Creator and One only, in the beginning made a most appropriate design
of a man and a woman by His infinite Wisdom and Power and then made
arrangements that precisely in accordance with that design countless men and
countless women should be born along with their separate individual qualities
in the right proportion.
29. That is, this system has not come about by chance, but the Creator
has brought it about deliberately with the object that the man should find
fulfillment of the demands of his nature with the woman, and the woman with the
man, and the two should find peace and satisfaction in association and
attachment with each other. This is the wise arrangement which the Creator has made
the means of the survival of the human race on the one hand, and of bringing
the human civilization into existence on the other hand. If the two sexes had
been created on different patterns and designs, and the state of agitation
which changes into peace and tranquility only through union and attachment
between the two had not been placed in each, the human race might have survived
like sheep and goats, but there was no possibility of the birth of a
civilization. Contrary to all other species of animal life; the fundamental
factor that has helped create human civilization is that the Creator by His
wisdom has placed a desire and a thirst and a lodging in the two sexes for each
other, which remains unsatisfied unless the two live in complete attachment and
association with each other. This same desire for peace and satisfaction
compelled them to make a home together. This same desire brought families and
clans into being, and this same desire made social life possible for man. In
the development of social life man’s mental capabilities have certainly been
helpful, but they were not its real motives. The real motivating force was the
same longing with which man and woman were endowed and which compelled them to
establish the “home”. Can anyone, possessed of common sense, say that this
masterpiece of wisdom has come about by chance through the blind forces of
nature? Or, that it has been arranged so by many gods, and countless men and
women have been continuously coming into being with the same natural longing
since thousands of years? This is a sign of the wisdom of One Wise Being, and
of One only, which the people devoid of common sense only can refuse to
acknowledge.
30. “Love” here means sexual love, which becomes the initial motive for
attraction between man and woman, and then keeps them attached to each other.
“Mercy” implies the spiritual relationship which gradually develops in the
matrimonial life, by virtue of which they become kind, affectionate and
sympathetic towards each other; so much so that in old age, sexual love falls
into the background and the two partners in life prove to be even more
compassionate towards each other than they were when young. These two are the
positive forces which the Creator has created in man to support the initial
longing of his nature. That longing and restlessness only seeks peace and
satisfaction and brings the man and the woman into contact with each other.
After that these two forces emerge and bind the two strangers brought up in
different environments so intimately together that the two remain attached to
each other through every thick and thin of life. Evidently, this love and mercy
which is being experienced by millions and millions of people in their lives,
is not anything material, which may be weighed and measured, nor can it be
traced back to any of the constituent element of human body, nor the cause of
it birth and growth found out in a laboratory. The only explanation of this can
be that the human self has been endowed with it by a Wise Creator, Who has done
so of His own will to serve a special purpose.
(30:22) And of His Signs is the
creation of the heavens and the earth31 and the diversity of
your tongues and colours.32 Indeed there are Signs in this for
the wise.
31. That is, their coming into existence from nothingness and their
being established an eternal law, and the functioning in them of innumerable
forces in great harmony and equilibrium, contain many signs of the reality that
One and One only Creator has brought the entire universe into existence, and He
alone is running this grand system. On the one hand, by reflecting over the
origin of the initial energy that assumed the form of matter, then the
transformation of the matter into so many elements, then the combination of the
elements in a wonderful and wise proportion and coming into being of an
awe-inspiring system of the universe, and then the functioning of this system
since billions of centuries with such regularity and discipline, every unbiased
mind will come to the conclusion that all this could not happen by mere chance,
without the all-embracing will of an All-Knowing, All-Wise Creator. Then, on
the other hand, if one sees that every thing from the earth to the farthest
stars in the universe is made up of the same basic elements and the same law of
nature is working in it, every intellect, which is not stubborn, will certainly
admit that this cannot be the result of the godhead of many gods but there is
One God Who is the Creator and Sustainer of this whole universe.
32. That is, “Although your vocal chords are similar, and there is no
difference in the structure of the mouth, the tongue and the brains, yet people
speak different languages in different regions of the world. Even in the
regions where the same language is spoken, different dialects are spoken from
city to city and from town to town. Moreover, the accent and pronunciation and
the style of speech of every person is different from the other. Similarly,
although the semen and the formula of your physical structure is the same, yet
your colors are so different that, nations apart, even the colors of the two
sons of the same parents are not exactly the same. In this verse, attention has
been drawn only to two aspects, but if one looks around he will notice an
infinite variety everywhere in the world. One will find countless differences
in the species of man, animal, plants and other things in spite of the basic
uniformity in their different members; so much so that no member of the species
is exactly identical with the other. Even the two leaves of a tree are not
exactly alike. This shows that the world is not a factory in which automatic
machines might be working and turning out things in mass production bearing the
stamp of their own separate species. But in this factory there is a
Master-Artist at work, Who gives individual attention to everything and
produces it on a new design with new embellishments and proportions and
qualities, and everything thus produced is unique in its own way. His inventive
genius is turning out a new model of everything every moment, and His creative
power abhors repeating the same design the second time. Anyone who sees this
wonderful phenomenon with open eyes can never be involved in the foolish
misconception that the Maker of the universe has gone to sleep after having
made it go. This is, on the contrary, a clear proof of the fact that He is ever
engaged in His creative activity, and is giving individual attention to each
and everything in His creation.
