THE WORD OF GOD

and burgeoning enclosed gardens and fruits and fodder as provision for you and for your cattle to enjoy. But when the deafening blast is sounded, on that Day a man shall flee from his own brother, his mother, his father, his wife and his sons: on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own—on that Day some faces will be beaming, laughing, and rejoicing, but some faces will be covered with dust and overcast with gloom: those will be ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity. (80: 21-42) The driving force behind the true godliness required of a man is in reality his sense of gratitude. If he gives serious consideration to his creation and the various natural systems around him, he will eventually develop a sense of gratitude towards his Lord. The state of being resulting from these feelings of gratitude and obligation is known as godliness, or adoration of God in the real sense. Rejection of truth and being arrogant about it are the worst crimes. Arrogant people will have absolutely no personal worth in the Hereafter, while those who accept the Truth and bow down before it are the ones who will carry weight in the Hereafter. The honour and successes of the Hereafter will be theirs. o Competitive World In the competitive world of today, those who want concessions will always find themselves in the back seat. It is only those who make every effort to earn excellent qualifications who will ever come to the fore.