Man and God

fellow creatures. Despite doing all this, they think that they are ‘making it big’. Wielding their power and cunningness, they try to hide their crimes. But this is only till they do not encounter death. Death is, as it were, an ‘operation’ that God has devised for every person that brings outside whatever is inside him. It reveals whatever he had concealed. Just as a man’s stomach cannot digest a diamond, this universe of God’s cannot accept oppression and injustice. The time is soon coming – the Day of Judgment – when the divine ‘operation’ will reveal the entire truth about people, and when they will have no alternative but to acknowledge their crimes. Two Types of Souls T he Quran (91: 9-10) says: “He who purifies it will indeed be successful, and he who corrupts it is sure to fail.” The present world is a testing-ground for us before the life of the Hereafter dawns. It is an opportunity for us to prepare for the Hereafter. If you leave this world and enter the world of the Hereafter as a noble and pure soul, you will be settled in the delightful environs of Heaven. And if you depart from this world for the world of the Hereafter as a soul laden with evil, you will be hurled into Hell. The present world is, as it were, God’s nursery. Different types of plants are grown in a nursery. The gardener inspects all of them. Those that he does not want he plucks out and throws away. And the ones that he finds desirable he lifts from