Light and Darkness

LIGHT AND DARKNESS One should be patient, not hasty. Man’s desire for instant gratification is the greatest reason for his being deprived of the bounties of God in the Hereafter. C hapter 17 of the Quran states: “Yet man asks for evil as eagerly as he should ask for good. Truly, man is indeed hasty. We have made the night and the day as two signs. We blotted out the sign of night and made the sign of the day illuminating, so that you may seek the bounty of your Lord and learn to compute the seasons and the years. We have set everything forth in detail.” (17:11-12) The system of night and day shows that it is the way of God that there should be darkness first and, thereafter, light should take its place. In God’s eyes, both of them are equally important. Just as there are benefits in light, similarly, there are benefits in darkness. If there were no distinction between night