Allah's Purpose with Man - II

[continued from Allah's purpose with man - I]




But, created though he was in the best of moulds,
Man fell from Unity when his Will was warped,

And he chose the crooked path of Discord.
And sorrow and pain, selfishness and degradation.

Ignorance and hatred, despair and unbelief
Poisoned his life, and he saw shapes of evil

In the physical, moral spiritual world,
And in himself.


Then did his soul rise against himself,
And his self-discord made discord between kith and kin:

Man began to fear the strong and oppress the weak,
To boost in prosperity and curse in adversity.

And to flee each other, pursuing phantoms,
For the truth and reality of Unity
Was gone from their minds.

[continued to Allah's purpose with man - III]