Page 29 - The importance of conscience in the Qur'an

BELIEVING IN THE HEREAFTER
WITH CERTAINTY

he man who comes to realise that he was brought into
this world to be tested by Allah, will then move on to
T another stage of thought. If we are tested in this life,
then death cannot be the end. There must also be a result to
this test. However, there is no result in the life of this world.
Amongst all the people who have lived in the past, there were
tyrants, dissolute people and murderers, as well as the
messengers of Allah and other people of very high conscience
who dedicated their whole lives to Allah. There were also poor
and miserable people who were subjected to oppression.
Those in the past are now all dead and gone; both the good and
the bad are buried in their graves. Today, there is nothing left
of them but some skeletal remains. Allah, the Owner of Eternal
Justice, would not let the life of this world be resolved in this
way.
In short, man's conscience will tell him that Allah's Eternal
Conscience will pay every man in full for what he has done.
Since the accounts are not completely settled in this world,
then there must be a place to where this is deferred.
People who think through their conscience will also find