Time is Up

Life is a state of trial, and death means sending man to the next world where he will reap the reward for his actions. The moment man’s trial is over, God’s angel comes and announces in a silent language: ‘Your time of action has come to an end. Now you have to die and appear before your Creator and Lord to account for your actions.’

Students were taking an exam in a school. They were bent over their desks answering their question papers. Finally, the time fixed for the exam was over. Immediately the invigilator present in the room announced, ‘Stop writing. Time is up.’ The case of the vaster life is the same as what happens in the examination hall. Every man or woman is in a big hall taking their respective exams. Everyone has a fixed time. The moment this time is over, God’s angel comes and announces in a silent language: ‘Your time of action has come to an end. Now you have to die and appear before your Creator and Lord to account for your actions.’

The experience of sitting in an examination hall that students have is an example by which they can understand the matter of life’s test in a vaster sense. Life is a state of trial, and death means sending man to the next world where he will reap the reward for his actions. The life before death is, in actual fact, a testing period and life after death is the period when the results will come out. One who leads his life wisely in this period of testing will have a better result in the next stage of his life. Those who are ignorant of these facts will experience nothing in this next stage, but remorse and frustration. The attitude of the student in the examination hall should be adopted by us throughout our entire lives. Everyone has to make efforts to answer the test paper given by God correctly so that when the time of the exam is over and his result is out, good tidings of success will be in store for him rather than an announcement of failure.