TWO PATHS

Two Paths ~ 75 ~ reward them for their steadfastness with robes of silk and the delights of Paradise. (The Qur’an 76:1-11) After being created with freedom in this world, man has been shown both the paths – the path of gratefulness and the path of ingratitude. Now which of the two paths he adopts is up to him. For one who opts for the path of ungratefulness there awaits the chastisement of hell. And for one who opts for the path of gratefulness there awaits the blessings of paradise. One who realises God, realises all other realities as well. The knowledge of God opens the door to all other knowledge. If moreover the individual becomes a man who knows himself, he comes to know reality, i.e. everything as it is in the full sense. This realisation enables him to pay the dues of God as well as of man. So far as reality is concerned, there is no difference between nature and the shari’ah.