Living in God's Glory
English book, p. 178
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
all consciousness when buildings collapse like a house of cards when the bowels of the earth are thrown up and what is on the surface of the earth is swallowed inside—at that moment, a person realizes that, in the face of the forces of nature, he is utterly helpless. he can only helplessly watch the dance of devastation happening around him without being able to do anything about it at all. The earthquake of the day of Judgment will be a trillion times more severe than the earthquakes in this world. all the support we lean on will be utterly shattered at that time. People will be dumbstruck, completely losing all their intelligence. The minarets of glory that people have built for themselves will come crashing down, and nothing will remain of them. on that day, only those who had not taken the things of this world as support will have a support to lean on. on that day, only those people will be successful who had surrendered to God in this world, at a time when everyone else had forgotten God and had, instead, sought support from the things of the world. DECEPTION ON ALL SIDES On the day of truth, those who appeared in a particular light in this world will be exposed to a completely different light: they will be exposed for what they were rather than what they pretended to be. This world is a world of deception and delusion. People are free to do one thing in reality here but realize that

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