Allah The Exalted — Page 125
All a h the Exalted 1 2 God's true kingdom destroys him and the angel of death finally seizes hold of him. Then how can it be said that the kingdom of God has not arrived upon the earth? Every day by God's command millions of people die in an hour and millions are born by His Command and mil- lions of the poor by His command become rich and millions of the wealthy become poor. Then how can it be said that God's kingdom upon earth is not yet? In heaven there are only angels, but on the earth there are men and also angels, who are agents of God and are the servants of His kingdom. They guard the various enter- prises of man, obey God all the time and send up their reports to Him. Then how can it be said that there is not the kingdom of God upon earth? God has been known mostly through His earthly king- dom for everyone imagines that the mystery of heaven is a secret and cannot be witnessed. In recent times all Christians and their philosophers have denied the exis- tence of heaven on which the Gospels base the whole kingdom of God, but the earth is in fact a globe under our feet and thousands of Divine decrees are manifested thereupon, which make us understand that all this change and birth and death is by the command of some Master. Then how can it be said that there is not yet the kingdom of God upon earth? God, the Lord of Honour and Glory, has named neither heaven nor earth in S u rah F a ti h ah and yet He has dis- closed the reality to us by saying that God is Rabb-ul- ‘ A lam i n. That is to say, all through creation, wherever there are bodies or souls, God is the Creator and Sus- tainer of all, Who provides for them all the time and administers them. His Rub u biyyat , Ra h m a niyyat and Ra-