The Qur’an For All Humanity
After Death
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In this world an animal is grateful to its master, but
man is not grateful to his Lord. Here an animal
recognises its dues to its master, but man does not
do so in regard to his Lord. Here an animal is
engaged devotedly in serving its master. But this is
not the case with man.
Man values only that animal which is faithful to
him. Then how can he fail to understand that only
those will have value and importance in the eyes of
God (in the Hereafter) who have proved themselves
His faithful servants? It is a sad fact that love of
money turns people blind, so that they fail to
understand a reality already experienced in their
immediate surroundings.
This state of affairs is not going to last. Death must
come, reminding man that he is totally in the grip of
God. Death, in actual fact, is an entrance to the next
world of reckoning. There man has to appear before
a divine court, where no human act is hidden from
the divine eye.
