May the below shed some light on our direction, and the harm we are creating on Earth be it at the expanse of other creatures in this world, our fellow men, and yes, to ourselves!
By the Sun and his glorious splendour;
By the Moon as she follows him;
By the Day as it shows up the Sun’s glory;
By the Night as it conceals it;
By the Firmament and its wonderful structure;
By the Earth and its wide expanse
The contrasts between the Sun and the Moon, the Day and the Night, and the Sky and the Earth – conduce to cosmic unity.
By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it;
And its inspiration as to its wrong and its right;-
Truly he succeeds that purifies it, and he fails that corrupts it!
The most precious gift of all to man is the faculty of distinguishing between right and wrong. The soul of man, with internal order and proportion in its capacities and faculties, as made by Allah, is appealed to as having been endowed with the power of discriminating between right and wrong.
Men should learn that his success, his prosperity, his salvation depends on himself; and his failure, his decline, his perdition depends on his soiling his soul by choosing evil.
Surah Ash-Shams (The Sun), Verses 1 – 10, The Holy Quran (Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation)
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