Real Revolution — Page 55
volumes have been written on the question of good and evil. This is the era when the argument can be used most effectively that the human mind has an inner sense which approves of certain actions as good, while it condemns certain others as evil. . Without going fully into the discussion as to what is good and what is evil, if we consider only the bare fact of the existence of this sense, we have to concede that human actions are subject to some kind of punishment and reward from which man in no way can escape. This sense, and its natural cause, furnish a strong proof of the Day of Qiyaamah and of life after death. If there is to be no final calling to account, why does human nature suffer from repentence in some cases, while in certain others it tries to attain to a better state of being. . Also in these verses the reawakening to lite that was to take place in this world itself is used as an argument in support of life after death. We are told that a death will overtake Islam. Its teaching would be there, but the people will forsake it. At that time Allah will give a new life to the Muslim people through an Apostle who would be a follower and a servant of the Holy Prophet; and all this, when it came to pass, would furnish a great argument in favour of the final Day of Judgement. For no one besides Allah could be in a position to foretell the initial rise of Islam to power and glory, its later