One who lies low in this world will be raised up on high in the Hereafter

One who lies low in this world will be raised up on high in the Hereafter

1992 5 May 5 One who lies low in this world will be raised up on high in the Hereafter (22) Ali said, “Lay low so that you do not attract attention; and be silent so that you remain safe.”

(Ibn Abi Ad-Duniya)

Rejection and Acceptance

1992 5 May 5 Rejection and Acceptance (263) Commenting on the importance still attached to caste and religion, the Times of India of October 28, 1990 recalled the incident of an Indian boy who, in 1965, went to a government college for admission. He was given an application form which had columns for religion and caste. He left “those spaces blank. His application was turned down by the clerk on the grounds that it was incomplete.”

The application was rejected on purely technical grounds. In reality there was no good reason for its rejection. What is worse is that such rejections are a common occurrence. Every day, individuals in all walks of life find themselves turned down for jobs and places in colleges just because they do not measure up to certain man-made standards. Such cases of rejection in this world are not based on proper grounds but on standards which have been artificially conceived. Quite often, this is true of acceptances also.

In this world, imperfect conditions seem to prevail everywhere. This is against God’s plan of creation, but He tolerates it because this world is a testing ground for mankind. The moment the time predetermined by God is over He will change the entire scene. What will follow will be His court, where he will give His judgment based on the facts.

The way people are rejected or accepted here will be repeated in the Hereafter. The difference, however, will be that whereas today’s verdicts are given on the basis of unreal standards, in the Hereafter the decrees issued will be based on the standard laid down by God.