When Death Will Expose Everything as False

God’s commandments. People think that they are being very successful by trying to rationalize or explain away their misdeeds, while their success actually lies in openly acknowledging their faults. They have been given the power of speech so that they use it to praise God, but they employ it instead to shower praises on fellow human beings. Emotions such as fear and love have been placed in them so that they should devote these to God, but they have made created things the objects of their fear and love. They think that accumulating material wealth is the most important thing, whereas actually the highest thing for them is to spend their wealth in God’s path and thereby have nothing left. They should have consideration for the weak, but instead they ignore them and flatter the strong. They should devote themselves to searching for and discovering the meaningfulness of life, but they drown themselves in furious agitation instead. The secret of their true progress lies in engaging in constant introspection, but, instead, they are busy inspecting and criticising others. They should consider worldly wealth and respect as unreal should and have no attachment to them, but they begin thinking these to be the biggest thing of all! Today, people are obsessed with critiquing the oppression of others, taking this to be bravery. Imagine their condition when, in the Hereafter, they will come to know that true bravery is to realize the oppression that one is oneself guilty of! People seek the support of something or being besides God, imagining it to be a powerful refuge. Imagine their condition when, after they die, they will learn that