FAITH AND HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Faith prepares him to lead a worthy life in society by adopting an attitude of modesty, sympathy and goodwill in all his dealings. In short, faith perfects man’s relationship with God as well as with other human beings. Development of a Sense of Responsibility and Accountability Accountability is one of the basic teachings of Islam. A perfect divine arrangement preserves a complete record of every person’s words and deeds. On the Day of Judgement, every single human being will be faced with an entire and accurate record of his deeds on earth. The Quran says about this fact: ‘Each word he utters shall be noted down by a vigilant guardian.’ (50: 18) A careful study of the present world shows that there is an unerring system of ‘recording’ in existence here on earth. The thinking of man is being impressed on the nerve cells of his brain. Every utterance of man is permanently preserved in the air in the shape of sound waves. Man’s actions are preserved in the external world by means of heat waves in such a way that they can be reproduced at any point in time. All these are known facts today. It is these known facts that make the Quran’s claim totally credible, that man’s intentions, his utterances and his actions, are all in the knowledge of his Creator. Every single thought or act of a human being is being entered in the registers of the angels. Man will be held accountable on the Day of Judgement for anything he does on earth. On the Day of Resurrection, an exhaustive record of an individual’s good and bad deeds in this world will come before him. On seeing this record, he will exclaim: ‘What can this book mean? It omits nothing small or great; everything is noted down.’ (18: 19) Whatsoever a man does is put on record by God’s arrangement. Man’s intentions, his sayings and his deeds are all imprinted on the screen of the universe. Today this arrangement or system is not visible to us, but on the Day of Judgement the curtain hiding it will be raised. At that moment man will instantly be terrified to see that whatever he had been doing in this world, under the misconception that nobody knew about it, is so clearly recorded here that neither the smallest nor the greatest thing has been left out. Man will be held accountable on the Day of Judgement for anything he does on earth. On the Day of Resurrection, an exhaustive record of an individual’s good and bad deeds in this world will come before him.