We Deserted God, So He Deserted Us

before Him in the next world. There, He will reward us according to our actions. Some will be admitted to heaven and others will be condemned to hell punishment. Though God knows well what His servants do, He has laid down a certain method for the distribution of divine justice; He has laid down that people in every age should arise from among mankind itself to awaken others to the coming of the Day of Judgement. Those who communicate the message of God to other nations of the world will be appointed as witness over them in the next world. They will testify before God as to who accepted His message and who rejected it. God will judge man according to their testimony. The Muslims, as bearers of the true, authentic divine scripture, are God’s witnesses on earth. It is their duty to convey the word of God to other nations. Their real crime has been to forget their true status in life, and fail to present themselves before others as God’s witnesses on earth. The method that God has appointed for delivering justice to the world necessitates that Muslims bear witness to the truth. If they do not fulfill this role, then they have not fitted in with God’s scheme. Thus they have been relegated to the position of offenders in God’s sight. How, then, can they hope for His succour? The Palestinian question, as well as other problems affecting the Muslim community, can be solved if the Muslims take up once again their duty as a community. Only if they help the cause of God will God help them. (Quran, 47:7) If they desert His cause, then they can only expect to be deserted by Him in return. Spending of what one has earned with one’s own labour Someone said to Uthman that rich people like him were able to perform more good deeds than others. They could give charity, perform pilgrimage and spend their wealth for the cause of God. “Are you jealous of us?” Uthman asked him. “I am indeed,” he replied. “By God,” Uthman said to him, “the one dirham that a person spends from his own earnings is better than a thousand dirhams extracted from a great stock of capital.”