The Darkness Shall End!
As per God’s creation plan, this world is a testing ground. In the world Hereafter, man will be rewarded or punished by God based on his deeds. The darkness shall end.
A human being appears to be a contradiction in this world of God. In a world where the sun rises at its appointed time, a man says something today and then denies it the next day! In a world where water can be squeezed out even from hard, dry stones, man cruelly oppresses his fellow man. In a world where the moon sheds light on all creatures without discrimination, man behaves in one way with someone and in another way with somebody else. In a world whose meaningfulness expresses itself in the fineness of the beauty of a flower, man behaves more cruelly than a thorn. In a world where the wind blows like a selfless servant, man lives in such a way as if there is no other purpose to his life than promoting what he regards as his interests. In a world where one tree never troubles another, one man never ceases to torment another. One person derives malicious pleasure from seeing another being destroyed.
All this happens daily in this world. However, God does not interfere in this. He does not end this contradiction. God seems so beautiful in the universal mirror of His creation, but how different His face appears in the grief-filled realm of human existence! Horrific things happen before God, but this does not stir Him. God sees people being killed, but He does not take any action. He sees the most barbaric things being done to the most sensitive person in the universe, but this does not make Him anxious or uneasy. Is God an idol of stone? Is He a statue that sees everything but does not express His reaction to it all?
This question has troubled thinkers the most in every age. However, this question arises only because we do not take into account God’s wisdom about His creatures. In God’s creation plan, this world is a testing ground. In our foolishness, we want to think of it in the form of a place where rewards and punishments for good and evil actions, respectively, should be meted out. We want to experience today the outcome of the Day of Judgment.
Every day, the darkness of night is dispelled by the spreading light of the sun. So, likewise, the darkness of life will get over one day, oppression will end, the arrogant and the defiant shall have to bow down, and those who remain on the path of the Truth will be rewarded. All this will happen in its fullness, but it will happen after death, in the Hereafter, and not before it.
