The Precipice
English book, p. 288
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
on the verge of death. Everyone is in danger of having come to the end of his period on earth and of being taken off at any moment to the next world from where he will never return. Then his existence will be one of either eternal hell or eternal heaven. When a blind man comes across a well on his way, everyone knows that the most important thing at that moment is to warn him of it. how strange it is that the whole human race is standing on the brink of the most dangerous precipice, yet no one ever feels the need to give warning of it. When a servant of God gives a danger signal, he is ridiculed and labelled a traitor, far from being appreciated. he is accused of wanting to lull the nation into the comfortable sleep of cowardice, dampening the spirit of a holy war among Muslims, and shifting the emphasis from real issues. he is vilified as not the messenger of life but death and doom. humanity stands on the brink of a precipice, but people are so disinclined to look in front of them that they have the illusion of being safe at home. People are heading toward death but are happy with the thought that they are advancing on life’s journey.

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