Just Words, No Action

Just Words, No Action God wants to see evidence of a person’s faith in its acceptance in the recesses of his heart, while people want to give evidence of it simply by verbal proclamations of the faith. God gauges our worship on the basis of the humility and sincerity of our prayers, while people think punctilious conformity to the minor details of external acts of worship to be proof of their piety. God wants to see the proof of their faith in terms of their inner being and their dealings, while people express it in the form of mere words. God wants us to follow His teachings in our lives, while people are busy stirring protests against others in the name of making them follow God’s injunctions. God wants to see us help oppressed individuals, but people, instead, write, speak and issue statements about collective oppression, never helping oppressed individuals while presenting themselves to be ardent supporters of the oppressed as an abstract category. Everyone knows that the answer sheet that a student fills up sitting in a library instead of an examination hall is utterly useless. Alas! If only people knew that, in exactly the same way, actions are completely valueless that are performed in any ‘place’ else other than where God wants them to be done! Just Words, No Action T hese days, paper is so common that wherever you look you will find at least one bit of it lying about. But these scraps of paper have no value. A currency note is also a bit of paper, but it has a definite value. Its value is so certain that no one can doubt it in the least. The difference between a currency note and any ordinary piece of paper is that in the case of the latter, no one has undertaken a guarantee to honour it, while