Islam As It Is
man, know theyself!
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cast down into the flaming pits of hell. If all this has
been kept hidden from him in this world, it is
because it is God’s intention to put man to the test.
It is in the afterworld that man will be faced with
the full consequences of his deeds, depending upon
how right or wrong they were. Every action has
certain consequences for the doer; every situation
that he creates causes a favourable or unfavourable
reaction. In deciding upon the course he takes, for
good or for evil, he himself forges his own destiny.
THE AFTERWORLD
At this point, the question arises as to the actual
existence of the afterworld. In what way is it to be
understood? In what way can it be made intelligible
to us?
Let us take sound, which we cannot see and can
only sometimes hear. It is the name for waves
which form an invisible pattern in the air and which
continue to exist thousands of years after the source
of the sound is no longer in existence. In the case of
the human voice, it is so indelibly imprinted upon
the atmosphere that, if we possessed the apparatus
