The Answer of all Answers to the Question of all Questions
The Answer of all Answers
to the Question of all Questions
to the Question of all Questions
Contributed by local journalist, 12-01-2010
God created all, yet asked one.
When God created his creations, He asked for worship.
What would worship be if He gave no choice? So He created complex time, created levels of existence, and created kinds of creations. Then He gave His creations a chance.
We happen to call that chance life.
God created the notion of good and evil like two opposing horizons. And He showed us the way. Then He based judgment on it. He gave us no say as to where and how we are born or die. But He gave us the power of choice.
What it boils down to is really one thing: the only choice we actually do have control over in life is the choice of good or evil.
Now imagine good and evil as opposite ends of one straight line. Theoretically, they would never meet.
But what if the summation or peak of all good and the summation or peak of all evil met?
What would happen?
What would it be like?
What would it feel like?
Would humans be included? And is it humanly possible to endure the experience? Would the difference between good and evil be clear or would the matter be confusing? Would there be any grey between the black and white?
When would it happen? What would it be called? How would it begin? When would it end? Who or what would it include? Who would live? And who would die? Who will win?
After all, it is this battle that man has wondered about since the beginning of existence in this humanly world. This is the battle that philosophers theorized about, but never were sure of an answer.
Why is that so? If we think hard enough, would we find the answer? Is the answer hidden or evident? Would man be capable of answering? Would man comprehend the answer were it given to him?
If man were to ask all questions, what would God answer?
If man was allowed to ask one question: ‘why?', what would God answer?
If man failed to ask, would God answer?
What if God already answered?
Would God's answer be comprehensible mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually?
The moment God created, God answered.
By granting choice, he set the stage for conflict.
Of all His creations, man is the best. So God gave man choice. In giving man choice, God knew man would do both good and evil.
He sent man Messengers to point out good and evil. He created heaven and hell to place each creation with its choice.
The life God granted us is but a battle between good and evil. This battle is one that each creation granted choice would fight. The battleground: mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
God even made it a fair fight. He allowed the devil to try and lure man away from good.
On a regular basis, man fights himself to chose. Man's dilemma arises from a disruption of harmony between his thought, emotions, and body. Man may know good, but would stumble. Man would know good, but choose not to do it. Man would know evil, but choose to act by it.
Therefore, man would be the nominal subject of choice for the battle.
If the battle is so strong on each person, of what magnitude would it be on a universal level? What would be the climax of all conflict?
It would be a battle where the difference between good and evil could not be clearer. It would be a battle in which there couldn't be more suffering. It would be a battle where man would fight man, in all and every meaning of humanity. It would have children and old men. It would have men and women. It would have the rich and the poor. It would have the free and the slaves. It would have the healthy and the ill. It would have the hungry and the stuffed. It would have the thirsty and the quenched. It would have the knowledgeable and the illiterate. It would have the strong and the weak.
In the foremost, it would be a battle of choice and awareness. Both sides would choose to go to battle. Both sides would have a chance to change sides. Both sides would know which side of good and evil they stood on. Both sides would have received the same message, would have the same Prophet, and would be from the same land, the same people, and the same language. It would be a battle where there could be no excuse for ignorance.
Would it be a fair battle?
No. It would be the culmination of tyranny against innocence, of strength against weakness...of wrong against right.
It would be the peak of all human suffering and sacrifice, the apex of humanity as humanity ought be, the true revelation of wisdom, spiritual strength, physical endurance, physical culturing, emotional ability and emotional pain.
The battle would be a battle of conflicts: courage vs. cowardice, wisdom vs. irrationality, tyranny vs. righteousness, right vs. wrong, good vs. evil, worship vs. disobedience...
Where would it take place? In a barren land where each side could clearly see the other. In a land with once water source. In a land where fleeing the battle would be accessible. In a land of civilization far from civilization.
Who would participate? Mankind's greatest icon of good and mankind's greatest icon of evil, and their supporters.
When would it happen? And would it comprise of one decisive round or many?
...and the questions keep rolling.
The moment God created, God answered.
The moment God created good and evil, He knew everything about the battle. He did not force man into it; man was forced by man; good was forced by evil;
God chose a unique man from a unique household with a unique family and a unique heritage.
God chose, yet let it happen. The chosen man knew, yet walked into it willingly.
The ground of that battle would be the time span of mankind. It would begin with Adam and Eve, and end with doomsday, but would have two rounds.
Question so you may find the answer. Ask so you may know. Search so you may find.
Ask what you will, and Karbalaa will answer.
Ask about Karbalaa, ask about Ashouraa, ask about Imam Hussein peace be on him.
Ask about Zainab, about Hussein's newborn child, about Abbas, and the thirsty camp, about the terrified orphans, about the beheaded martyrs, about the captives led to Yaziid...
Ask about bravery and you shall find the answer. Ask about selflessness and you shall find the answer. Ask about sacrifice and you shall find the answer. Ask about tyranny and you shall find the answer.
Ask what you will, and Imam Hussein (pboh) will answer.
But if you ask: when is the second round, Imam Mahdi (pboh) will answer.
Then you will have embarked on a lifelong quest to comprehend the answer of all answers to the question of all questions.
God created all, yet asked one.
When God created his creations, He asked for worship.
What would worship be if He gave no choice? So He created complex time, created levels of existence, and created kinds of creations. Then He gave His creations a chance.
We happen to call that chance life.
God created the notion of good and evil like two opposing horizons. And He showed us the way. Then He based judgment on it. He gave us no say as to where and how we are born or die. But He gave us the power of choice.
What it boils down to is really one thing: the only choice we actually do have control over in life is the choice of good or evil.
Now imagine good and evil as opposite ends of one straight line. Theoretically, they would never meet.
But what if the summation or peak of all good and the summation or peak of all evil met?
What would happen?
What would it be like?
What would it feel like?
Would humans be included? And is it humanly possible to endure the experience? Would the difference between good and evil be clear or would the matter be confusing? Would there be any grey between the black and white?
When would it happen? What would it be called? How would it begin? When would it end? Who or what would it include? Who would live? And who would die? Who will win?
After all, it is this battle that man has wondered about since the beginning of existence in this humanly world. This is the battle that philosophers theorized about, but never were sure of an answer.
Why is that so? If we think hard enough, would we find the answer? Is the answer hidden or evident? Would man be capable of answering? Would man comprehend the answer were it given to him?
If man were to ask all questions, what would God answer?
If man was allowed to ask one question: ‘why?', what would God answer?
If man failed to ask, would God answer?
What if God already answered?
Would God's answer be comprehensible mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually?
The moment God created, God answered.
By granting choice, he set the stage for conflict.
Of all His creations, man is the best. So God gave man choice. In giving man choice, God knew man would do both good and evil.
He sent man Messengers to point out good and evil. He created heaven and hell to place each creation with its choice.
The life God granted us is but a battle between good and evil. This battle is one that each creation granted choice would fight. The battleground: mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
God even made it a fair fight. He allowed the devil to try and lure man away from good.
On a regular basis, man fights himself to chose. Man's dilemma arises from a disruption of harmony between his thought, emotions, and body. Man may know good, but would stumble. Man would know good, but choose not to do it. Man would know evil, but choose to act by it.
Therefore, man would be the nominal subject of choice for the battle.
If the battle is so strong on each person, of what magnitude would it be on a universal level? What would be the climax of all conflict?
It would be a battle where the difference between good and evil could not be clearer. It would be a battle in which there couldn't be more suffering. It would be a battle where man would fight man, in all and every meaning of humanity. It would have children and old men. It would have men and women. It would have the rich and the poor. It would have the free and the slaves. It would have the healthy and the ill. It would have the hungry and the stuffed. It would have the thirsty and the quenched. It would have the knowledgeable and the illiterate. It would have the strong and the weak.
In the foremost, it would be a battle of choice and awareness. Both sides would choose to go to battle. Both sides would have a chance to change sides. Both sides would know which side of good and evil they stood on. Both sides would have received the same message, would have the same Prophet, and would be from the same land, the same people, and the same language. It would be a battle where there could be no excuse for ignorance.
Would it be a fair battle?
No. It would be the culmination of tyranny against innocence, of strength against weakness...of wrong against right.
It would be the peak of all human suffering and sacrifice, the apex of humanity as humanity ought be, the true revelation of wisdom, spiritual strength, physical endurance, physical culturing, emotional ability and emotional pain.
The battle would be a battle of conflicts: courage vs. cowardice, wisdom vs. irrationality, tyranny vs. righteousness, right vs. wrong, good vs. evil, worship vs. disobedience...
Where would it take place? In a barren land where each side could clearly see the other. In a land with once water source. In a land where fleeing the battle would be accessible. In a land of civilization far from civilization.
Who would participate? Mankind's greatest icon of good and mankind's greatest icon of evil, and their supporters.
When would it happen? And would it comprise of one decisive round or many?
...and the questions keep rolling.
The moment God created, God answered.
The moment God created good and evil, He knew everything about the battle. He did not force man into it; man was forced by man; good was forced by evil;
God chose a unique man from a unique household with a unique family and a unique heritage.
God chose, yet let it happen. The chosen man knew, yet walked into it willingly.
The ground of that battle would be the time span of mankind. It would begin with Adam and Eve, and end with doomsday, but would have two rounds.
Question so you may find the answer. Ask so you may know. Search so you may find.
Ask what you will, and Karbalaa will answer.
Ask about Karbalaa, ask about Ashouraa, ask about Imam Hussein peace be on him.
Ask about Zainab, about Hussein's newborn child, about Abbas, and the thirsty camp, about the terrified orphans, about the beheaded martyrs, about the captives led to Yaziid...
Ask about bravery and you shall find the answer. Ask about selflessness and you shall find the answer. Ask about sacrifice and you shall find the answer. Ask about tyranny and you shall find the answer.
Ask what you will, and Imam Hussein (pboh) will answer.
But if you ask: when is the second round, Imam Mahdi (pboh) will answer.
Then you will have embarked on a lifelong quest to comprehend the answer of all answers to the question of all questions.
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