Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Speaking Tree Website | December 01, 2014

If there is a heap of salt containing a small amount of sugar, an ant that comes would take away the sugar and ignore the salt. This is the culture of ants. This culture can be described in these words: "Ignore what is undesirable and adopt what is desirable."

Who taught this culture to ants? Undoubtedly, it is the Creator who instilled this instinct in the ants. This means that the "ant culture" is not merely the culture of ants; it is divine culture. It is a part of creation. It is according to the law of nature and also a lesson that the Creator wants to impart to man. In an unspoken language, the Creator says: "O man, Adopt the ant culture!"

Ant follows this principle under its instinct. For ants, it is a natural compulsion. Ant does not know any other method in this regard. But man has freedom and he adopts by his own choice what animals have adopted under their instinct. Human beings should follow the ant culture by their own choice. What is a phenomenon of instinct for ant is a phenomenon of exercising freedom of choice for man. He must exercise his intellect, realize the ant culture as his discovery and adopt it as his own culture.

It is very easy for man to adopt the ant culture. According to the law of nature, our world would always be a mixture of negative and positive items but under the same law of nature, negative items would always be less than one percent and positive items would always be more than ninety-nine percent. Discover this fact of nature and you would gain a two-fold benefit: this discovery would help normalise your mind and at the same time it will enable you to select the positive items and ignore those items that seem negative for you.