Embellishment of Actions

Men, the promise of God is true. Let the life of this world not deceive you, nor let the Dissembler trick you about God. Satan is your enemy: therefore treat him as an enemy. He tempts his followers so that they may become the heirs of Hell.

The unbelievers shall be sternly punished, but those that accept the true faith and do good works shall be forgiven and richly rewarded.

Is he whose foul deeds seem fair to him, like the man who is rightly guided? God leaves in error whom He wills and guides whom He pleases. Do not let your soul expire in grief for them: God has knowledge of all their actions.

(The Quran 35:5-8)

We are told by the apostles of God that the nature of life is beyond the experience of man. On the contrary, the things of the world—death, earthquakes, calamities are like tidings of Qiyamah (Doomsday) in advance. But Satan immediately diverts people’s attention, making them believe that these events (earthquakes, etc.) are nothing more than matters of cause and effect, rather than being manifestations of divine intervention. All such thoughts are deceptions created by Satan. That day is sure to come when the false and the true are differentiated; when good people are rewarded for their good deeds and bad people are punished for their bad deeds.

God has bestowed upon everyone the capacity to think and distinguish truth from untruth. One who makes use of his God-given capabilities, receives guidance, while one who does not is left to his own resources.

When the truth becomes apparent to a man, his mind receives a jolt. At that moment two paths are open before him. If he accepts the truth, his mind’s course is set in the right direction. On the contrary, if it should happen that, for circumstantial, or psychological reasons, he rejects the truth, he then, more often than not, commits the even greater folly of attempting to justify his failure in order to present a bad deed in a good light.