rose-Coloured spectacles
English book, p. 171
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
ROSE-COLOURED SPECTACLES tomorrow; after casting others down into the pit of death, he will meet an identical fate. This world is a formidable testing ground. Everyone has been given a free hand in the sphere allotted to him so that he may either prove his mettle or reveal himself for the unworthy person that he is. however, sad to say, life is full of cruelty and irresponsibility. ironically, those who are most guilty of these lapses are the very ones who complain of others’ misdemeanours. Everyone is a ‘General Manzoor’—engaged in the annihilation or oppression of others. Everyone wants to set himself up on the ashes of other men. Everyone wrongly supposes he will be able to step into their shoes by destroying others. he ignores that what awaits him is not this world’s high and splendid positions but his own dreary grave. Woe betides those who perpetually see themselves through rose-coloured spectacles, for life will ultimately force them to look directly at the bare, unvarnished bleakness of their moral failures. no one stops to think about this aspect of the future, so engrossed is he in the present. Everyone is fully conversant with what is happening today but is oblivious to the blows that will fall tomorrow. What man must finally come to terms with is not the ‘here and now’ but all eternity.

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