It seems that even the sky
is not a limit for man.
His insatiable hunger
and thirst for power and wealth
drive him to madness.
Among all of God’s creations,
man alone has never learned
to say “enough.”
Blinded by obsession,
by the glitter of power and riches,
he has committed
the most heinous crimes and atrocities.
Avaricious and restless,
he often wages war against others
and seizes what God has allotted to them.
Instead of using modern and sophisticated technology
for the betterment of life on this planet,
he employs it to create
the deadliest war machines—
tools meant to kill his own kind
and pollute the very air he breathes.
Killing others is not what he was created for,
yet he kills and kills
as though it were not a sin.
Beyond robbing others
of their land and wealth,
his craze for riches
drives him to harm the environment.
God-given resources
meant to sustain many generations to come
are consumed by man
as if they must be exhausted
in a single lifetime.
His obsession with power and wealth,
manifested through the exploitation
of natural resources,
leads him to pollute
the land,
the oceans,
the forests,
and even outer space.
When nature takes revenge
against man’s wrongdoings
in the form of flash floods,
mudslides, or landslides,
he cries out,
calling them natural calamities;
yet, in truth,
they are caused
by his own destructive hands.
(Surah Al-Rum 30:41)
Such a man realizes
only at the end of his life
that he was never meant
merely to consume wealth and power,
but to fulfil a higher purpose.
This realization comes too late,
for he must leave behind all
that he has spent a lifetime accumulating.
The millions he has obtained through wrongdoing
will never follow him to the grave,
nor save him from what awaits him
in the next dimension of life.
In the end,
a good life is balanced and moderate—
one that cares for man,
for the flora and fauna,
and for all fellow human beings.
Mohd Abbas Abdul Razak
Dept. of FIDS, AHAS KIRKHS, IIUM
Published in Potret Online
Date: 30th Nov. 2025
The views expressed are those of Dr. Mohd Abbas Abdul Razak, Department of Fundamental and Interdisciplinary Studies, AHAS KIRKHS, IIUM, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Potret Online.
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