particularly true of peace. If we want peace, we should be ready to pay for it or stand deprived of it. What is the price of peace? It is simply tolerance. We live in
glitter and glamour. But on the Day of Judgment, every person will come forth in his or her real state. What a severe day that will be! If people were to realize this now, they would stop jabbering. Nothing
someone’s interests being hurt, and so on—one discovers that a person’s inner reality is not the same as what appears from the outside. Ugliness is hidden under a beautiful garb. Selfishness, superficiality,
all things in this world function completely according to the law of nature. They compulsorily do what the law of nature has destined for them. But man’s case is different. In possessing
reflect on how they will manage to live amidst very difficult conditions after they die, if that is what is going to happen with them. If we ponder over this issue seriously, it can create a revolution in
Everything becomes a means of reminding him of God.
Sincere Repentance
Chapter 66 of the Quran, tells us what sincere repentance (tawbah) is. Verse 8 says: “Believers, turn to God in sincere repentance. Your
such point of reference. One who is aware of this can sincerely take the great name of God in prayer. What is death? Death is not the end of life. It is rather the end of one’s stay on our present earth. Here
(14:36), had been answered.
Now the question arises as to how people were misled by these idols. What qualities did these inanimate objects possess which helped them in this regard? We can understand
rest of the world on the physical level should be reflected in the world of man on the human plane.
What is found in the physical world in the form of iron is required in the human world in the form of firmness