Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 295
— Part III 288 Was there any human witness as well, at the time of recording this testimony? The Holy Quran goes much further than that; it speaks of the testimony of each criminal against himself. Thus he will be convicted not on the evidence of other humans but by his own confession. The unspoken answer by God to such as Gh a lib would be: no other human would be needed to testify against you. You yourselves will testify against your own motives and acts of crime. A confession such as this requires no outward testimony, be it of angels or humans. This category of testimony by humans against themselves is mentioned in many verses of the Holy Quran. In short, the confession of the criminal would fully support the testimony of God and the angels against him. The Divine recording system is all comprehensive. According to the following verse of the Holy Quran, on the Day of Judgement man will exclaim with awe and wonder as to the all-comprising nature of this testimony. Man will say, … … …'O woe to us! What kind of a Book is this! It leaves out nothing small or great but has recorded it'. … (S u rah al-Kahf; Ch. 18: V. 50) This means that the record presented before the criminal would be so perfect that the criminal himself would not remember all these details until reminded