The industry of life and death

Life and death are facts. We observe them every day, but quite often we do not learn from the experience as much as we should. It’s very easy for a child to cut a flower or break a window, or for a man to uproot a tree, or demolish a building. It’s very easy for a careless driver to knock down a bystander with their car or for a gunman to shoot haphazardly into a crowd and kill unsuspecting victims, or plan to destroy a building, bridge, house or people. Sometimes a process of destruction only takes seconds; sometimes an hour or two.

If we look at the industry of death, we find its goals are very easily achieved. What we build in years, decades and centuries is often destroyed in minutes, hours, days. But while it takes seconds to destroy, it takes lifetimes to protect and preserve. The industriousness of living is what God has created us to develop, so we can struggle together, work collectively, compliment one another and salute the achievement of every being.

Somebody wants to take his life: why should he take his neighbour’s life with him? Not only that, why should he take his own life? We need to preserve life, to prevent this waste. We need to change the mindset and philosophy of those destructive people, from that of the industry of death to the industriousness of living.

Some people think that when they get killed they are martyred. But martyrdom is beyond being killed by, or killing others, and if we look back at the history of mankind, who came to the planet as messengers or prophets, we can see that God through his wisdom did not make them war-bringers: to be killed on the battlefield. God in his wisdom wanted them to become the founders of the industriousness of living, not of death. Every day, we count the number of innocent dead who have been blown up by a suicide bomber in different parts of the world. But if you go to the little girl whose father and mother happened to be passing through the market at the time the incident happened, and ask her why she is crying, she will say ‘daddy and mummy will never come back’. What fault did this little one, and her daddy and mummy have, to be punished in such a merciless way? Is this really what God wants of his messengers?

Religions, prophecies, messages and messengers are not about killing innocent people or promoting the industry of death. It is about saving, preserving and bettering the lives of others; producing the industriousness of living. This is what God wants from all of us. Let us guide, advise the death industrialists, and take them by the hand to show them how we can together produce the industry of living.