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or the human resources required to inflict
punishment are lacking and so the evildoer goes
scot-free. Crimes are often repeated for just
such reasons. But the perpetrator of evil should
not congratulate himself too soon on the success
of his schemes or on his ability to escape, for it
is exactly this type of action that he will be called
to account for by his Creator on the Day of
Judgment. Everyone, no matter from what walk
of life he hails, will be required to stand before
his Maker and lay his life absolutely bare before
Him. On the basis of the actions which fall into
the ‘ethical category’, where moral precepts or
scruples, are of overriding importance, he will
either be ushered into Paradise or cast down into
the flaming pits of Hell. If all this was kept hidden
from him in this world, it was because it was
God’s plan to put man on ‘trial’. If he knew about
all this, his trial would have been meaningless.
Every action of man has some consequences
for him and every state that he finds himself in
precipitates a ‘favourable’ or ‘unfavourable’
