10. THERE IS A BENEFIT IN THE CREATION OF WHAT HARMS
If someone asks, ‘What’s the benefit in creating something that is harmful?’ The answer to that question is that, ‘It is established that the wisdom of the Creator is evident, and if such wisdom is unknown to us in some matters, we must submit. All the good things He created are just a model of the reward He prepared in the Hereafter, and all the harmful things He created are just a model of the Punishment He prepared in the Hereafter; hence He created nothing that is harmful except that it has some benefit in it.’
Some people consulted a doctor about the opinion of a person who says, ‘I am like the scorpion; I neither harm nor benefit.’
The doctor said, ‘This is a man with little knowledge! Because scorpions are beneficial and can be used as medicine.’
It can be used to cure its sting if its belly is split and then pressed on the place of the sting, and it can remove the stones in the kidney if it is placed inside a closed clay pot with covered sides then this pot will be placed in an oven until the scorpion turns into ashes.
The sick can then drink the size of half a daniq (square measure of that ashes or more and it will crumble it without harming any other parts of his body. The stings of scorpions can also cure severe fever and semi-paralysis, and can also be dipped in fat until the fat takes all its nutrients then used as a cream to cure tumors and the examples of this are too many to count.
The ignorant is the enemy of what he is ignorant of, and the greatest foolishness is when the ignorant attempts to refute the learned.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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