Page 65 - Fear of Allah

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
Being fooled by their allotted time on Earth

In order that people might be properly tested, Allah has granted
us all a fixed period of time in the temporal world. He sends us
warnings and grants us every opportunity to repent and to correct
the mistakes we may have made. However, for people who do not
live by the religion, this very generosity is yet part of what lies be-
hind their inability to fear Allah as they should. In order to avoid the
consequences of their actions, people are in general extremely care-
ful when it comes to behavior which brings an immediate come-
back. Let us look at the following example.
Let us suppose that a person is working for a company on a good
salary, and has been given an important set of targets to meet, know-
ing that failure to achieve these targets would be likely to result in
the termination of his employment with this company. It requires no
great stretch of the imagination to guess how much sheer effort and
determination would go into the task. The very thought of the loss
he would face in the event of losing his job would ensure that any
lesser approach to it would be entirely out of the question. He would
do everything possible, even to the extent of sacrificing his comfort,
his sleep and even abandoning other assignments in order to meet
his objectives and escape the enormous distress that would result
from failure. This is all very well but the question is whether such
people feel the same level of urgency with respect to the much
greater reality of having to account to Allah? The truth is that the
vast majority do not because they do not see death and the Hereafter
as imminent realities, according to them the life they are leading is
much more realistic.
Yet in a Qur'anic verse the allotted time on Earth given to people
is referred to as follows:

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