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Managing Human History

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e learn from the Quran that one of the laws of history is
Wthe law of ‘repelling’. It has been mentioned thus in the
Quran:

‘If God were not to repel some people by means of
others, the earth would be filled with corruption.’ (2:251)

The law of repelling here means that God has granted man
total freedom, but at the same time He is constantly watching
the human world. While maintaining human freedom, He is
constantly managing history. On account of this management
of history, man’s misuse of freedom does not culminate in any
major corruption.
The truth is that the freedom granted to man by the Creator
has a special purpose. That is, it is designed for man to develop
his personality in this world. This purpose cannot be fulfilled
without having freedom. But freedom often leads to the misuse
of that very freedom. That is why the Creator is constantly
keeping a watch over the evolution of human history, so that
the wrong use of freedom never goes to such extremes that
the creation plan of the Creator is jeopardized. This was why
the Creator put an end to the age of monarchy, through the
French Revolution, for the system of monarchy did not allow
human freedom.
In 1922 with the establishment of the Communist empire,
strict limitations were put on human freedom. This was totally
against the creation plan of God. That is why in 1991 the 69-
year old Communist empire was dismembered. This did not

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