English book · Living in God's Glory

What Will happen That day?

English book, p. 126

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

anybody. Thus, if a person were to snatch away something from someone that the latter has legitimately acquired, it is, as it were, snatching something given by God. That person wants to try to go against God’s plan. suppose someone gets a house, and others plot to take it away from him. if someone has a legitimate source of livelihood, people want to destroy him economically. an individual leads a respectable life, but others want to rob him of his respect. someone is at peace with his surroundings, but people institute false cases against him to destroy his peace. all such actions interfere with what God has arranged. it is a war against the all-Powerful God by absolutely helpless creatures. What do such actions amount to? God wants something, but these creatures want something else. For example, God decided to arrange for the allocation of livelihood among people in a particular way, but these creatures do not agree. These creatures’ defiance of God appears to work in this world, but this apparent success is only because, in this world, people have been granted freedom to test their ability to use it wisely. as soon as the period allocated for this test is over, people will find themselves so utterly bereft of power that they will not even have words to utter against others or the capacity to harm them. in this world, human beings have freedom. here, people are free to go against what God has laid down as proper for human beings to do. For example, they have the freedom to try to condemn the allocation of livelihoods among people

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