The Qur’an For All Humanity
Period of Respite
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The shining of the stars above serves, in symbolic
language, as a reminder of the fact that an Observer
is watching mankind. This Observer is recording
human actions. He will create man again after death
and then will judge all his actions. This period of
respite on earth is only a test. The fixed time that
man is allotted between his birth and his death,
serves as a line of demarcation between this world
and the Hereafter. As soon as the trial period is
completed, the consequences of our actions will
appear, right before our eyes, although man had
thought this event to be in the far distant future.
Though the Creator of the Universe is in the unseen,
His being is clearly manifest in everything. If man
were to ponder seriously upon the universe, he
would certainly find God. He would discover the
reality that in the present universe the only
behaviour proper to man is that of obedience to
God. Those who indulge in insolent behaviour
towards God have no place in His world. Creation
is an introduction of the Creator. For its observer, it
is a manifestation of the Creator.
