We Bear Witness Against Ourselves
Then comes
a question that is repeated by those who want to doubt Allah’s fairness (SWT)
and put despair in the hearts of people so that they would stop their acts of
worship. Those people say that if in the knowledge of Al-Haqq (SWT) that a
person is among the people of Paradise or among the people of Hell, will not
that be sufficient without any need to work on it?
We say to
those people that the worldly life is a place of examination for man and there
is a difference between the saying and the doing. For a man might say a lot of
things that he will not do when the time comes for doing it. For example, a
soldier before going to the battle might tell you that he will kill twenty soldiers
from the enemy’s side, but when the fighting actually starts he is the first to
run away and leave the battle. And also a person might tell you that he will
give you a thousand dollars if you do something for him and when the time comes
for paying he is stingy and does not give you anything. Al-Haqq (SWT) draws our
attention to that in his mighty book and says:
<<And when there came to them (the Jews), a Book
(this Qur’an) from Allah confirming what is with them [the Taurat (torah) and
the Injeel (Gospel)], although aforetime they had invoked Allah (for coming of
Muhammad (PBUH)) in order to gain victory over those who disbelieved, then when
there came to them that which they had recognized, they disbelieved in it, So
let the Curse of Allah be on the disbelievers>>
Ayah 89 from surat Al-Baqarah
This is
regarding the Jewish people for they were telling the infidels from AlMadina that
the time has come for a new Messenger that they the Jews would believe and
follow and with the Messenger they would kill the infidels in the same way the
People of Ad and Thamud were killed. But after the Messenger of Allah (PBUH)
was sent, the Jews were the first to reject him and fight him and they plotted
conspiracies to kill him.
And the people
of Pharaoh asked Moses, (PBUH) and upon our Messenger, to lighten the penalty
on them and they promised him Faith and when Allah answered Moses’ call (PBUH)
they did not believe and continued to reject. And in that Al-Haqq (TWT) says:
<<But when We removed the punishment from them to a
fixed term, which they had to reach, behold! They broke their word!>>
Ayah 135 from surat Al-A’raf
And the
noble Qura’n is full of verses that shows us how the non-believers and the
hypocrites and others say and promise things and when time comes to fulfill
their promises they do not perform them.
So there is
a difference between the words and the deeds, and to prevent man from coming on
the Day of Resurrection to dispute and say to God that if He had invited him to
Faith he would have believed and that if He had sent a Messenger he would have
followed him and that if He had asked him to do good deeds he would have done
them, there should be a practical test for man to go through so that he would
witness against himself on the Day of Resurrection.
In that
case man would not come to say that if God had guided him to Faith he would
have believed because Guide came to him but he did not follow it and he would
not claim that if God had sent a Messenger he would have been the first to help
him because Allah had actually sent the Messenger but he was the first to fight
him.
So on the
Day of Resurrection man should witness against himself and should not dispute
at the time of Account because he experienced the practical test and failed it.
And that is according to what Allah (Azz wa Jall) says:
<<(It will be said to him): “Read your book. You
yourself are sufficient as a reckoner against you this Day”>>
Ayah 14 from surat Al-Isra’
But that
test, the test of Faith in the worldly life does not happen because Allah is
not knowledgeable or because (SWT) wants to increase his knowledge, for Allah’s
knowledge (Jalla Jallaloh) encompasses everything, but that test is only for
people to bear witness against themselves.
Exactly in
the same way we have exams for the university students, for the university does
not do those exams to learn from the students, for it has provided them with
the knowledge, but it actually do it so that every student bear witnesses
against himself. If a student comes and claims that he did well in the exam,
they will get out his answers and he will see that he has failed and cannot
then dispute.
Here we
reach the point that those people who Allah (SWT) has described them in the
noble Qura’n to have hearts that do not understand and eyes that do not see and
ears that do not hear, they themselves have ruined their own sensing devices
and they have not used them in what Allah has created them for. Also man should
beware from the whispering of Al-Shytan because if he follows it, then it will
move him from the will of Faith to the will of Infidelity, though in both cases
he does not get out of Allah’s will (SWT). We also reach the point that this
present life, the worldly life is a test for us so that we would bear witness
against ourselves and so that we do not come on the Day of Resurrection to
dispute but to know that Allah’s knowledge (TWT) encompasses everything.
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