Civilisation at the Cross Roads — Page 8
If the purity and righteousness of a penon'1 lire become. the sole criteria of honour among mankind, u we are taught they are in the sight of God, we 1hall very soon achieve a much needed moral and spiritual revolution in society and in its outlook. All other standard• would then adjud themselves in subordination to this. For, again, it is obvioua llfld at various places the Quran recognises, that all ract. on in human life have their uses and their value and that thti)' can all serve a beneficent purpose if_ they: are properly regulated and adjusted. Islam is a faith that insists upon the acceptance of life -on a positive and constructive basis and disapproves and even condemns the rejection, negation, or stultification of life. It ~ks to incu~ca. te a consciousness of the capacity and dignity of life and a recognition of the far-~eaching consequences of humau action· and human thought. We are admonished: ''Oh ye who believe, fear God and let every soul look to what it sends forth for the morrow. Fear God: Verily God is well aware of what you do. Be not like those who forgot God and whoo~ He has consequently caused to forget their own souls". (LIX : 19-20/ It is disregard of the morrow · that has falsified our standards of values. "They say, •There is nothing but this our present life; we Jive here and we die. Time alone destroys us. ' They have no knowledge concerning it, they do but conjecture. . •. . . Say, 'It is God ~ho gives you life, then causes you to die; then He will gather you together unto the Day of Resurrection about which there is no doubt. But most men know not'. . To God belongs the kingdom of the heu:ens and th~ earth and when the Hour shall come, on that day those: who follow falsehood will be the losers". (XLV : 95 and 2'2'·28} The Q~. ill as insistent upon belief in the life after. death as it ia upon· belief in the Existence and Unity of God. It warns that without this belief, human life would not be in balance. It is only through achieving this "balance 0 , neither 8