NO FEAR OF ACCOUNTABILITY

neither feels repentance nor has he any urge for introspection. He lives on in unawareness and dies in unawareness. In this matter, exactly the same is true of the Muslims. Almost all Muslims accept the concept of life after death and the belief in heaven and hell. But if you go deeper, you will fi nd that almost all the presentday Muslims have no fears either about the Hereafter or about hell. They have, likewise, devised self-made concepts according to which salvation in the Hereafter appears certain to them. For instance, all Muslims consciously regard themselves as being a special class. Any man or woman born into a Muslim family is surely entitled to paradise — so, many of them wrongly think. This concept is undoubtedly self-made, having nothing to do with either the Quran or the hadith. But it has become so common that it has become a part of Muslim thinking. All Muslims, whether scholars or commoners, rich or poor, intellectuals or laymen, have accepted this as an alleged established fact. The belief in life after life acts as a powerful deterrent to man when he is about to commit evil, but when other self-made beliefs are added to this belief, then believing in the life after life is almost as good as not believing in it at all. o Not yielding to frustration By forgetting what is lost, one reorganizes one’s work on the basis of whatever one still possesses. Planning anew replaces getting frustrated and this makes it possible to set oneself to starting one’s life’s journey all over again.