Page 849 - Atlas of Creation Volume 4

Harun Yahya

Living irresponsibly in fact opens the door to all troubles and
difficulties. A person who fails to properly appreciate that every-
thing is under Allah’s control will be terrified of the future. A per-
son who fails to appreciate that all profit and loss lies with Allah

will greedily pursue his own profit throughout his life, thus ruin-
ing almost that entire life. Someone who does not know that Allah
has created a matchless life in the Hereafter in which a person can
enjoy all delights will expect to see true love, friendship and loyalty

in the system in which he believes. But the fact is he will only possess true love in this world if Allah
so ordains. That expectation will never be met as long as he does not live for Allah. He will realize
that his life is passing swiftly by without his attaining true love and devotion. But there can be no go-
ing back. He waits in terror for what lies in the future.

In his own eyes, he only has a few decades in this world. Since he has no belief in the Hereafter,
he thinks he will “cease to exist” in a few decades’ time. How can spending a few decades in this
world believing that one will then cease to exist impart any happiness, pleasure or peace? It cannot,
of course. That is why no atheists enjoy life in the way they claim to, and spend their time worrying

about and fearing what the future will bring.
When they come to the end of their lives, such people will realize they have spent it all in emp-
ty and pointless pursuits and expectations. That is what irresponsibility brings with it. If someone
has no hope of the Hereafter and wants to live unfettered and devoid of any values, then sooner or

later he must face the consequences of that. Suicide, fighting, murder, slaughter, theft, rape and cor-
ruption are all consequences of an irresponsible life.
Yet as Allah reveals in the verse, "Does man reckon he will be left to go on unchecked?"
(Qur’an, 75:36), human beings are not created without responsibilities. It is only fear and love of

Allah that can bestow peace and that leads a person to live a true and pleasant life with no fear and
troubles. Someone who fears Allah knows he will have to account for himself to Him and cannot live
in violation of his conscience. Nobody who fears Allah can harm anyone else, display poor moral val-
ues, or regard human beings as random entities. Someone who trusts Allah knows that it is Allah

Who creates him, preserves him and gives him his daily bread, health and strength and knows he can
ask these things from Him alone. Someone who fears Allah knows that he is subject to an auspicious
destiny created by Allah, that he is solely tested in this world, and that his real life will be the one
appointed for him by Allah in the Hereafter. For that reason, they constantly strive in this world.

They know that are responsible to Allah, that they must render account to Him, and that Allah does
not create them to be unfettered and irresponsible.
For them, blessings are means for rejoicing, and it is only believers who can properly appreciate
and enjoy blessings. People imagine that they will achieve satisfaction when they enjoy unlimited

pleasures. But this lack of restraint leads people to become tired of, and even disgusted with, bless-
ings. The delights they expected to enjoy suddenly turn into afflictions and burdens. But the state of
mind that loves blessings from Allah and enjoys them because Allah created them is very different.
Someone who lives in that way enjoys extraordinary delight. And by Allah’s leave, the reward for

living in that awareness is a pleasant life in this world and the Hereafter. Allah reveals in verses that:
Yes, the friends of Allah will feel no fear and will know no sorrow: those who believe and show piety,

there is good news for them in the life of this world and in the Hereafter. There is no changing the words
of Allah. That is the great victory! (Qur’an, 10:62-64)

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