Given that reason and logic emphasize the necessity of a responsible leader for even the smallest social unit, how can humanity as a whole at-tain the basic goals to which it aspires or acquire the lofty values of which it is worthy, without a leader and chief?
Now the Creator, within the system of creation, has not withheld any-thing that may be needed for any being to advance and attain a fitting degree of perfection; He has placed the necessary means and tools at the disposal of all things, and given to each part of every animate being and plant exactly what it needs. How then can it be believed that in the sys-tem of legislating for the human being He should overlook the sending of Prophets who play such a sensitive and multifaceted role in the evolu-tion of the human being, or that He should remain indifferent to this fun-damental pillar?
Furthermore, can any intelligent person accept that the vast scheme of being, with all the wonder-inducing manifestations of life, should be based on aimlessness and purposelessness? Is it possible to attribute such an irrational act to the sublime Creator? The question of reward and punishment, in a precise and calculated form, is involved here.
It is an indubitable scientific principle that purposiveness is the concom-itant of all life, thought and will. It is not possible that a wise being should consciously undertake an action in which no goal or purpose resides.
Apart from the fact that the human being instinctively regards an aim-less act as incompatible with wisdom and intelligence, he can clearly per-ceive that all the atoms in the world of being are ruled by order and cal-culation. So just as the orderliness of life springs from the knowledge and wisdom of the Creator, the same may be said of the purposiveness of the whole scheme of being, including the existence of the human be-ing.
Is God indifferent to the fate of humans? Has He abandoned them to their own devices, so they may shed each other's blood, commit any crime they like, and transform the world into a fiery hell?
A God Who holds back nothing in order for every creature to attain its perfection cannot possibly be indifferent to the human being's attaining the degree of perfection suitable to him. On the contrary, just as He guides the human being to material perfection by means of his instincts, He guides him to his true perfection both by means of the innate guid-ance of his nature and by means of legislative guidance, for innate guid-ance needs help when confronting the instincts.
The Quran says: "We will give help to both groups, those who worship the world and those who seek the hereafter, so that none should remain deprived of the favor and generosity of their Lord."(17:18)
If the human being were left alone in the world with his own hopes, everyone would judge on the basis of his own temperament and taste. He would do whatever he found pleasing and conformable to his inclin-ations. Every individual would follow his own path in order to secure his interests, and the result would be a clash of desires and interests, leading to the severance of individual and social relations and unending corruption and anarchy.
The French scholar, Emile Dermenghem, writes in his book The Life of Muhammad: The Prophets are just as necessary for the world as the be-neficial and wondrous forces of nature, such as the sun, rainfall, winter
storms, which shake and cleave open dry and infertile land, covering them with freshness and verdure.
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