Human: God’s Most Thoughtful and Thoughtless Creation

By Abdu Labaran Malumfashi

Before the scholars of the Darwinian ‘Theory of Evolution’ skin me alive, let me quickly say that I am talking from the Islamic perspective, where Allah (SWT) tells us that all humans evolved from Prophet Adam (AS), including Darwin himself.

But Darwin said human beings evolved from the (lower) apes and developed to what we are today through the process of (according to him) evolution.

God means man to be thoughtful not thoughtless but his (man’s) nature makes him to also be the latter as well, meaning he is wicked by choice.

And I am talking about the SEEN world not including the outside world which have beings including the jinns and the occupants and drivers of the Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO’s for you and me).

The good (thoughtful) side of humans is made more evident to those who go on safaris as the encounter where animals in dire need or distress come to humans (mostly on highways) seeking for help from them.

These animals can be adults or youngsters (some very young), whose child or mother (in most cases) has been caught into a human trap and can therefore not be able move.

As the case may be, the affected animal will come to the highway trying to attract the attention of humans and those (humans) who get the message will follow the animal to where its child or mother is trapped. There one will witness human being at his best trying to help the animal escape from the trap it was captured.

But the bad (ugly) side of humanity is displayed over the ages against fellow human, with one of the most recent events being the unfortunate massacre by Adolf Hitler of Germany of more than six million Jews during the Second World War.

This massacre is known as the ‘pogramme ’, in the Western world, and anyone who has the temerity of denying it is considered akin to an apostate.

The survivors of that pogramme, who found a home in Israel, are today perpetrating their own ‘programme’ against the Palestinian people trying to wipe out the people from the face of the earth, with the help of the US and the UK from the same Western world.

But long before then, the UK, followed by other western nations, notably the US, perpetrated what will go down in history’s as the most barbaric inhumanity against fellow humans in what is called the ‘slave trade’, before it was first abolished in the UK nearly 300 hundred years ago.

There were also the ‘eradication’ of millions of fellow humans on the pretext of fighting against what they call ‘the Mass Weapon of Destruction’ in Iraq, Libya and Afganistan by the US, the same US that condemned the then Soviet Union’s protracted military campaign in Afganistan earlier.

Coming to home, Nigeria, human’s inhumanity against fellow human being is legendary. It is in Nigeria that humans make illegal money against his compatriot and go home happy that he has made a huge ‘profit’.

Sometimes, at the mere mention of government’s intention to increase tariffs on some services, the private vendors of the service will go ahead of the government and make the intended increase in their prices, until they are forced by the government to pay back the extra they collected from their customers.

Recently, some ‘DARKNESS’ providers in some zones quickly charged their customers extra money at hearing of government’s intention to increase the tariff of the service. The government had to make the companies pay back the extra money they charged their customers.

I said ‘DARKNESS’ instead of ‘LIGHT’ providers, because that is what they do everywhere, including the administrative and the financial capitals of the country. Both Abuja and Lagos are also victims of the lack of power most of the time. This questions the rational of the privatisation of the energy sector in the first place.

Another area where the small providers (better known as Independent Marketers) make what many of them call ‘a killing’ is the oil sector.

In places far away from the Federal government, these type of marketers charge their customers as they please, and when they are forced by the local authorities to sell the product as ordered by the government, they will shut their stations and claim that they have no more fuel to sell. But sell they do in the night at their own prices.

Then there are those humans who would rather ‘the whole house falls’ than for someone to ‘benefit’ from where they work, even if that someone has worked for what he gets.

This brings forth the question of ‘what they want to do with the money they keep on accumulating all the time’ if not for the bad side of humans?

Malam Malumfashi wrote from Abuja.