English book · The Spirit of Islam

Listen to Your Inner Voice

English book, p. 177

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Listen to Your Inner Voice alone is the recourse. On that Day, man will be told of all that he has sent before and what he has left behind. Indeed, man shall be a witness against himself, in spite of all the excuses he may offer.” (75: 1-15) Every person by birth has a conscience – a faculty which functions independently. It remains uninfluenced by one’s thinking and one’s desires and tells a person again and again what is right and what is wrong, what should be done and what should not be done. This conscience is like a divine court of justice. It warns a human being in advance of his mistakes and his wrongdoing. It repeatedly tells him what is right and what is wrong. In spite of that, a person remains ignorant, becomes forgetful of God and leads his life as if there will be no Doomsday when he will be judged for his words and deeds. Those who adopt this attitude of neglecting their conscience are, as it were, denying their own nature. A person’s inner voice calls him, but he is not ready to listen. The truth is that his conscience issues a prior announcement of a divine verdict. If he pays heed to it, he will, before his death, learn what is going to happen after death and how he will be dealt with.

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