SPIRIT OF ISLAM NOVEMBER 2019

15 Spirit of Islam Issue 83 November 2019 Those who are motivated solely by the superficial interests of money, honour or fame are little better than miserable misfits in this selfless world of God. all humility, for, as the Prophet has enjoined, no one should be proud; no one should consider himself superior to others. The activities going on in the world at every moment proclaim who are worthy and who are unworthy. Those who are motivated solely by the superficial interests of money, honour or fame are little better than miserable misfits in this selfless world of God. They are not true to the standards set in in this universe, which is a living manifestation of divine ethics. Only those who can be motivated by the truth, pure and simple, who can rise above personal interests, freeing themselves from complexes and obsessions, shall be deserving of honour and glory from God. In the heavenly world to come, all those who have been activated solely by their immediate worldly interests will be marked down as unworthy, and cast out from it. This beautiful and blissful world will be inherited only by those who, motivated by unworldly interests, lifted their eyes from the immediate, material things in order to be able to see things distant and ‘unseen’. The universe demonstrates at all points in time and on a vast scale what kind of citizens are required by God to inherit the ideal world of tomorrow—Paradise. God desires men who will be true to His morals, and who will practice the religion that is enshrined in theory, in His Book and, in practice, in His universe. Those who refuse to learn their lesson and persist in following the path of selfish passion are wrongdoers of the worst kind. Those who refuse to see God’s signs, although they have eyes, and refuse to hear God’s voice, although they have ears, are, in the eyes of God, ‘the worst creatures’. (8: 22) o