Light versus Darkness

Light versus Darkness

1985 7 July 7 Light versus Darkness (277) God made the world according to His scheme and it perfectly corresponds to it. The believers are those who conform to the pattern created by God and the unbelievers are those who do not. Not conforming to His scheme is tantamount to spreading mischief in God's world. God will soon take them to task, and there will be no escape His punishment which will be eternal.

God brings the sun every morning to illuminate the path of the people; but man brings darkness into the lives of the less fortunate. God provides food for man in abundance so that he may appease his hunger; but man exults in watching others starve. God sends rain so that men and beasts may quench their thirst, but man takes delight in seeing people die with thirst. God opens up vast opportunities for people to build up their lives but man maneuvers to deprive others of them. God showers His blessings on him but others become jealous seek to dishonour him and ruin him.

Adopting such a negative attitude has been cited in the Quran as spreading corruption in the world. This is to go against the divine plan, it is to forsake the divine way and lead a self-ordained life according to one’s own will and desires.

In this way, man nullifies the scheme of God which is tantamount rebellion against God. This is the greatest crime that man can commit and it is being perpetrated in the world of God today on a mass scale. Ironically, those who are most involved in this crime are the ones who pass themselves off as upholders of the divine cause on earth.

The world is stricken by evil so that man can learn to be good

1985 7 July 7 The world is stricken by evil so that man can learn to be good (66) Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa, on a visit to drought-stricken Ethiopia, said that the country’s famine was God's way to teaching the world the lesson of charity. “God is teaching us a lesson, He is giving us opportunity to give until it hurts,” the 75 year-old leader of the missionaries for charity order told journalists who accompanied her to eastern Ethiopia at the end of December 1984.