Forty Gems of Beauty — Page 19
19 5. Belief in the Last Day, which must inevitably follow death, when every individual will be requited for the good or bad deeds he performed in this life. 6. Belief in the orderly existence of good and evil which is operating in the world, in the form of a Divine law. It means, in other words, believing that the law of nature and the law of religion [ Shariah ] are both Divinely-devised laws and God alone is the Founder and Guardian of this material and spiritual universe. He it is Who has laid down the principle for everything, whether of a physical or a spiritual nature, that certain actions lead to good results while certain other actions yield evil consequences as a matter of course. And above all, God holds supreme power over the laws He has created. Under certain circumstances, therefore, He brings about phenomenal changes in these laws, for the sake of His prophets and saints. Such changes, however, always form exceptions to these laws and never run counter to His known ways or promises or attributes. The phenomenon of miracles belongs to the category of these exceptional laws.