Islam As it Is

man, know theyself! ~ 30 ~ cast down into the flaming pits of hell. If all this has been kept hidden from him in this world, it is because it is God’s intention to put man to the test. It is in the afterworld that man will be faced with the full consequences of his deeds, depending upon how right or wrong they were. Every action has certain consequences for the doer; every situation that he creates causes a favourable or unfavourable reaction. In deciding upon the course he takes, for good or for evil, he himself forges his own destiny. THE AFTERWORLD At this point, the question arises as to the actual existence of the afterworld. In what way is it to be understood? In what way can it be made intelligible to us? Let us take sound, which we cannot see and can only sometimes hear. It is the name for waves which form an invisible pattern in the air and which continue to exist thousands of years after the source of the sound is no longer in existence. In the case of the human voice, it is so indelibly imprinted upon the atmosphere that, if we possessed the apparatus