Reflections on Life and Death

he would fire bullets at them, they would lash their tails about and open their mouths wide. “All this,” Col. Jaipal writes, “gave me quite a lot of thrill.” It is perhaps intrinsic to the human mind to want to go after others, to make plans to trouble them. And when people succeed in these plans, they revel in what they think is their ‘success’. But little do they realize that in the Hereafter they shall be held accountable for their deeds. In contrast, someone who controls this urge and lives in the world in such a way that he becomes a source of mercy for others will find that the doors of Heaven will be opened to him in the Hereafter. What Wil Happen That Day G od is the Lord of everything. Whatever anyone receives is given by God. No one but God has anything to give to anybody. And so, if a person were to snatch away something from someone that the latter has legitimately acquired, it is, as it were, snatching something given by God. This person wants to try to go against God’s plan. Suppose someone gets a house, and some other people plot to make him houseless. He has a legitimate source of livelihood, but these people want to destroy him economically. He leads a respectable life, but they want to rob him of his respect. He is at peace with