Syed Raheel Shahzad argues that without transcendent law, power itself becomes the law. Modern civilization masks jungle rule in contracts, courts, and media, but the dynamic stays the same: the strong dominate, the weak suffer. Without something higher to restrain it, power turns into worship.
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When higher law disappears, power does not disappear. It becomes the law. The strong call it order. The wealthy call it markets. The rulers call it security. The institutions call it policy. But beneath the language, the jungle returns. Not with trees, with contracts, sanctions, weapons, boards, courts, markets, media, and systems designed to protect whoever already controls the system. This is the oldest rule of the jungle. The strong do what they can. The The weak suffer what they must. Modern civilization did not abolish this rule, it refined it. It gave it paperwork, it gave it legal vocabulary, it gave it public relations, it gave it moral slogans. But when law is cut off from truth, law becomes a tool. When rights are cut off from justice, rights become selective. When power is cut off from accountability, power becomes worship. And the world begins to call domination stability. But a society cannot survive when might becomes right. A civilization cannot remain human when the powerful answer to nothing above themselves. The question is not whether power exists. Power always exists. The question is, what restrains it? If there is no higher law, then the jungle is not behind us. It is beneath us, waiting.
