reluctant to believe that this world will come to an end and that he
will be recreated with death and exist for all eternity, if he thinks
that all he has belongs to this world, then this person will have a
frightening and terrifying wait. He seeks to give the impression he is
unaware of this. He will maintain that his purpose is to enjoy the
things of this world. He will say he never thinks about tomorrow and
lives only for the moment. Yet subconsciously he is still worried
about "ceasing to exist." The life of this world, which he believes in
as an absolute entity, will increasingly abandon him. Death is
approaching.And after death, according to his own superstitious
belief, there is only non-existence. This really terrifies that
person.
The terror of someone who denies Allah is not limited to the fear of
ceasing to exist. Everything is equally terrifying for someone who
denies Creation, imagines that everything came into being
spontaneously and that the universe and he himself are both entirely
haphazard. Under his feet there is a thin crust over boiling magma,
while the Earth revolves at great speed in the vastness of space. If
everything were acoincidence, as he believes, then a meteor would
inevitably one day collide with the Earth, and the Earth would be
shattered in a moment with gigantic tremors. Anyof the billions of
delicate balances that make the Earth hospitable to life could
similarly be eliminated. Therefore, just about everything represents a
threat and source of anxiety for such a person. The heart he believes
beats by chance, the veins he believes carrynutrients to the body by
chance and the eyes he believes see by chance are all in danger at
every moment.
These are the people who,as stated in a verse, believe that the life
of this world is all they possess: "What is there but our life in the
dunya? We dieand we live and we will not be raised again." (Surat
al-Muminun, 37)
The aim behind such people's denial is to make the greatest use of the
life of this world, no matter how great their fear and terror.
Therefore, one would expect such a person to do all he can and use all
the means at his disposal to remain, in his own eyes at least, in this
world he imagines to be a random one, to striveto that end alone. But
thatis not what happens. The great majority of such people MOBILIZE
ALL THEIRMEANS TO OPPOSE MUSLIMS, and not to stay alive or to enjoy
earthly pleasures. This is an astonishing state of affairs.It is
amazing how they expend all the power, money and means they would
appear to acquire in the life of this world, in short, everything
given them by Allah, SOLELY in order to oppose Him and His religion
and to weakenand inflict suffering on Muslims, in their own eyesat
least.
Our Almighty Lord has revealed this in verses:
When We let people taste mercy after hardship has afflicted them,
immediately they plot against Our signs. Say: "Allah is swifter at
plotting." Your plotting is recorded by Our Messengers. (Surah Yunus,
21)
When unbelievers, who see and appreciate the might of Allah in times
of difficulty, attain well-being they imagine that the mercy bestowed
on them from His own Grace by Allah is actually theirs, and they then
stupidly direct all their energies to striving against Muslims in the
belief that their power and well-being belong to them. Allah creates
these people specially in order to test Muslims. Their Creation in
this way is one of the greatest proofs of the existence of Allah.
Almighty Allah Has Spoken of this Attitude of Unbelievers in Verses
Almighty Allah reveals in the Qur'an how some unbelievers unwilling to
live by the moral values ofthe Qur'an will use all theirpower to
strive against Him and Muslims. Some of these verses read:
When those who are unbelievers were plotting against you to imprison
you or kill you or expel you: they were plotting and Allah was
plotting, but Allah is the Best of Plotters. (Surat al-Anfal, 30)
Allah desires to turn towards you, but those who pursue their lower
appetites desire to makeyou deviate completely. (Surat an-Nisa', 27)
Those who prefer the lifeof this world to the Hereafter, and bar
accessto the way of Allah, wanting to make it crooked; they are
greatlymisguided. (Surah Ibrahim, 3)
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