MAN’S PLIGHT

in the extreme. He is quick, though, to take up the cause of those who have been denied their rights by others besides himself. In order to consolidate his own power, man raises false slogans, not minding if a whole nation has to suffer as a result. He seeks to advance his own interests at the expense of others, not seeing that in his attempt to trample on the rights of others, he is in fact trampling on truth. He lives in a dream world, though the only world worth living in is one based on truth and reality. If he were to remember death he would live a good life in preparation to receive the rewards of God in the eternal life of the Hereafter. o Man seeks to take his fill of worldly pleasures, but it is a mouthful of earth that is his final portion. If you try to reckon up God's favours, you will not be able to count them. The Quran 14:34