DECEPTION ON ALL SIDES JOURNEY TOWARDS GOD-REALIZATION
Spirit of Islam, July-August 2025, p. 9
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
DECEPTION ON ALL SIDES JOURNEY TOWARDS GOD-REALIZATION T his is a world of deception and delusion. People are free to do one thing in reality, but claim that they are doing something quite different. They may be pursuing a policy of personal advancement and self-aggrandisement, but they use slogans which make it appear as though far from serving themselves they are only out to serve others. They say that what they are doing is for the good of their nation, whereas in fact they themselves are the only beneficiaries of their policies. Everyone twists words to his own advantage, making the cruelty and injustice that he inflicts on others appear like justice and humanism. Those who have the law on their side have a licence to act as they please. If the law sanctions their misdemeanours, then no one can say that what they are doing is wrong. This is the way with people of the world. As for people who call themselves religious, the course that they follow is not very different. They have attached the label “religion” to a few lifeless dogmas; they have assigned the highest rewards to menial, mechanical rites and ceremonies; they make ritualistic religion appear like real religion; they give themselves credit for practising religion, whereas in fact what they are practising is religion made by man, not that revealed by God. The “God” that they have invented for themselves is one that they do not need to fear. They have appointed for themselves a Man is free in this world because he is being put to the test. He can do as he pleases as long as his trial period lasts. When it comes to an end, he will find himself absolutely powerless.

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