What God Wants from us

WHAT GOD WANTS FROM US Even the most harmful animal does not know how to humiliate another creature. it does not know how to demean others to exalt itself and satisfy the urge to feel proud. it has no desire to get others into trouble and derive pleasure from this unnecessarily. it is the only man who does this. God made man, as the Quran (95:4-5) says, in ‘the best of mould’, but in his foolishness, man demeans himself to the state called ‘the lowest of the low’ in the Quran. WHAT GOD WANTS FROM US God wants to see evidence of a person’s faith in its acceptance in the recesses of his heart, and his dealings with others; while people want to give evidence of it simply by verbal proclamations of the faith. an examination was being conducted in a college. a student entered the examination hall and took his seat. however, he did not write anything at all on the answer sheet. instead, he just sat in his chair. and then, three hours later, he stepped out of the hall and went to the library, where he began answering the examination paper. he had left the answer sheet blank in the examination hall, but there, in the library, surrounded by books, he filled his notebook with his scribbling. you will say this is a fictitious story. indeed, you will remark that no student can be as stupid as writing his examination in the library instead of the examination hall. however,