The Darkness Shall End!
In this world of God’s, a human being appears to be a contradiction. In such a world where the sun rises at exactly its appointed time, man says something today and then denies it the next day! In such a world where even from hard, dry stones water can be squeezed out, man cruelly oppresses his fellow man. In a world where the moon sheds its light on all creatures without discrimination, man behaves in one way with somebody 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 all around, 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 own personal interests. In a world where one tree never troubles another, one man never ceases from tormenting another. One person derives malicious pleasure in seeing another being destroyed.
All this happens on a daily basis in this world. But God does not interfere in this. He does not end this contradiction. Seen in the universal mirror of His creation, God seems so very beautiful, but in the grief-filled realm of human existence, how different His face seems to appear! Horrific things happen in front of God, but this does not stir Him at all. God sees people being slaughtered, but He does not bother about this one bit. 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 at all. Is God an idol of stone? Is He a statue that sees everything but does not express His reaction to it all?
This is the question that has most troubled thinking people in every age. But this question arises only because we do not take account of God’s wisdom with regard to His creatures. In God’s creation plan, this world is a testing ground. We, however, in our foolishness, 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 that what is to happen on the coming Day of Judgment should happen today, before our very eyes.
Every day, the darkness of night is dispelled by the spreading light of the sun. Likewise, the darkness of life will definitely 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.
