Inspection From Above
Al-Risala (English), May 1989, p. 15
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
Inspection From Above
1989 5 May 15 Inspection From Above (362) There is no detail of our private or public lives which escapes His eyes, and no matter how hard human beings try to conceal their sins of omission and commission, God’s all-seeing eye will immediately take them in at a glance.
On May 12, 1988, a major explosion 800 kilometers to the south west of Moscow was picked up by US spy satellites. What it destroyed was the greater part of the Pavlograd nuclear missile plant – the only one of its kind in the USSR. The location of this plant, which produced rocket motors for intercontinental missiles, had been a highly guarded secret, and the news of explosion was naturally suppressed by the Soviet authorities.
However, where the Russian media were silent on the subject, the authorities having managed to shroud the whole affair in secrecy, the U.S.A. was quick to give the news to the whole world. At a later stage, Russian sources also confirmed the explosion. No matter how assiduously the Soviet authorities had tried to guard the secrets of the existence, location and produce of this unique weapons factory, they ultimately became known to the world at large, because space spying, particularly by the U.S.A., is now going on a massive scale.
If, previously we have not been able to conceive of the minute, global observation which is carried on at all times by the Almighty, we now have a man-made inspection system which can give us – on a smaller scale – what our Maker is capable of doing on a much grander scale throughout the vastness of the universe. There is no detail of our private or public lives which escapes His eyes, and no matter how hard human beings try to conceal their sins of omission and commission, God’s all-seeing eye will immediately take them in at a glance.
In this world, man does not acknowledge the evil of his ways – particularly his arrogance – but, in the Hereafter, God will place a complete record before man, which he will have no choice but to acknowledge. If people were to realize the extent and penetration of this ‘heavenly inspection’ their whole lives would undergo the most profound of changes.

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