What created the civilization?

Q2: Martian: "I have been watching you, and I found that you use your hands and your head, I also noticed that you have built amazing civilizations, the question is, did you make this civilization with your hands or in your head?"

A: The Head.

Competition

Q3: Martian; "I wonder, since you think that you created all this civilization by yourselves, what do you think made you want to of create all of this. I mean what is the factor that controlled your thinking and helped you to develop your knowledge?"

A:.............. Competition.

Let us to look in our old history and return back in the mythological story about sons of Adam, Cain and Abel. To see why Cain killed his brother Abel?

The answer is easy: COMPETITION.

I explained before that our first feeling was fear of death and that pushed humans to secure their resources for life, to meet their needs as a human beings. There weren’t any limits or any measurement to these needs. That meant that human needs were unlimited, and if he needed one thing to secure his life, he worked to have two. Like this the fear changed to be another feeling that we call greed.

Most of animals feel some degree of satisfaction whilst eating because they don't have fear; they eat to fill their bodies according to their instincts. Humans haven't got this degree of satisfaction because first they will think 'I am eating this now but will I find food tomorrow', and secondly they have a big fear of losing their lives, and what they have got and it made them afraid of the future, the animals don't know there they have a future.

Humans need many things to stay alive, not only physically but also mentally, therefore he worked to have what he needed without any limits, to overcome his fears (from death, pain and an uncertain future) he looked around him and tried to have everything that there was around him, even if he didn’t instantly need it, that is the explanation of the story of Adams’ sons.

This lack of security was felt deep in the human heart and left them feeling that they must create security in their life by having more than they needed. Knowing that if they didn’t have the basics of life, it could be fatal, feeling in their hearts that once they have left this life they we cannot return. There wasn’t any chance to try death and return back to life again, the idea about death is horrible in our mythology (like in Pharaohs mythology), in Islam we believe that we will be tortured when we die for all the bad things we have done. I feel no human would accept to suffer any shortage of life resources because he knows that there isn’t any second chance, there is only one life. The first human understood that fact well; instead of one woman he worked to have two (in Islam a man has the right to have four wives!!!).

That rule influenced the life of humans very dramatically; it made humans the most dangerous animal on planet Earth! He wasn’t satisfied with what he had, and looked what everyone else had and not only on his planet but also on other planets (the Martian will run away now, LOL) in recent years. So this rule pushed humans to look for more and more resources and to believe in competition.

Competition means; the belief in grabbing everything possible before another person can have it, and that belief led to these different kinds of human activities:

First activity is the conflict between humans.

2d; activity to discover new resources.

3d; research for find new ways to make new resources (like agriculture).

4th; is to regulate sharing of life sources.

These are the major activities that humans used to secure their needs, and until today we can see that nearly all humans’ activities are around these points.

Competition pushed humans to acted violently using aggressive actions and killing people in wars or even individually (murder) but also pushed humans to believe in sharing to what we have, like this we created laws and tradition to control our competitive urges and to regulate them. Now we can hear about honest competition (in sport for example).

In my opinion, the competition is the major factor which pushed us to make our civilization and that shows us the wisdom of our great creator. Please try to imagine that we are still living in paradise where we can have everything we want, imagine that you just eat and sleep doing nothing else, in a situation like that who would need to create an oven or juice machine since there are rivers of juice in paradise. Try to imagine that humanity had everything that they needed to live all the time on Earth, do you think after all this bounty, there will be someone working?

For many years I had this question and I tried to find the answer somewhere but I didn't, the question is: why our God created more than one religion? Simple question, don't you think? I'll answer now;

More than one thing means difference and difference brings competition. Here is the wisdom, competition brings strong belief, let me explain what I mean. I have been living in Lebanon for many years now; I have met different people here, Moslems, Christians, Sina, Shi'a and even Buddhist. I have spoken much with people from different backgrounds, I noticed that when I'm speaking with one from specific religion or ethnic group, when we discuss things about his personal belief he will speak with secular ideas but when we are speaking about another belief he will then hold extremist views. That means the competition with other religions or belief will make him a strong believer. I have noticed that very clearly in Lebanon.

I like to give you another example; I was small child 6 or 7 years old, at that time my family lived in north of Iraq (in Beijy) where the majority is from Sina. I remember that at on day (10^th of Moharm) when the Shi’a had special ceremony for the Killing of Al Husain, the sacred man of the Shi'a. On this day the Shi’a have special ceremonies, and the radio broadcast special programs. These ceremonies are for Shi’a and nothing to do with the Sina. I remember that day my mother put the radio in the window with the volume very high so others outside were forced to listen to the program! I was small at that time but that incident stayed in my mind, and now I understand why my mom did that. She was capable of keeping the radio quiet for us to listen to, so why did she choose to make people from Sina listen to a Shi’a ceremony. It’s clear that there is competition even in our beliefs, even in the same religion, so what do you think about different religions?

There is saying: necessity is the mother of invention. I speak: competition and necessity are the father and mother of inventions.

Conflicts and wars have occurred because of human competition to have a bigger share of everything and look what happened when the sharing failed, like in the story of Adams' sons. Unfortunately that competition took bloody course, but in other ways it has also pushed humans to invent more tools and to learn more technology so he can beat his competitors. There are endless examples of competition, just look around you, at yourself or your family and even your friends; you'll see easily examples of competition.

I don’t think that I need to speak more, but I like to put something more as a conclusion:

Human has a fear of death, so he wants to stay alive, he needs things and materials to stay alive, and he has worked to have more of what he needed because of the fear of death. That was the same for all humans so that has caused competition between humans to have more resources of life than their neighbors. Competition pushed the human to be thinker and inventors to have more tools and better technology, that is our civilization.