From time immemorial good and evil had been expounded and human being
knew this thing in the olden days and he knows it now so there is no
question of him saying he does not know. Every one can differentiate
between good and evil those who sincerely follow God will definitely do
good as mentioned in the above Verse of the Quran while unfortunately
those who don’t believe in the Hereafter although everyone is certain
that he is going to die will meet their doom. So human being is by
nature very weak ignorant and due to arrogance he thinks he knows
everything thinking that he even knows better than his Creator. This is
why due to such arrogance especially when somebody is intosticated by
power or wealth he thinks he owns everything as if he is the giver of
life and death like Pharaoh or Nimrod. Due to such arrogance of humanity
this is why Allah in His infinite wisdom used to send Prophets to guide
this misguided human to the right path .Alas those who normally follow
the guidance were simple folk and the intellectuals normally used to
follow their own desires instead following the true guidance given by
the Prophets . All the Prophets mentioned in the revealed Books such
Torah, Psalm the Injeel and the Quran showed the people the right
guidance and no body can change that guidance. As time goes
unfortunately people for their selfish ends try to temper with the true
teachings and guidance of those guided Prophets such as Noah, Abraham,
Moses Jesus and Muhammad to mention a few all Peace be Upon them .As
every one wanted to follow his or her own desire instead of following
the true teachings of the Prophets this is why misguidance started
spreading everywhere. As time goes more misguidance spread and people
started believing the misguidance to be guidance so good started to
become evil and evil dominating became good vice versa and people
started believing in that. For example the institution of marriage is
replaced by adultery and freedom of the so called modern feminists
groups spreading adultery and illicit sexual temptations and free
mixing in the society became the norm. Adultery was accepted and
gradually marriage life started to be old fashioned drinking became the
norm and the ones who do not drink would be dubbed as fundamentalists
and outdated even among the so called Muslim Society. Islam came to
rectify all these evils during the time of the Prophet and would
continue to show guidance to all those who sincerely wish to get
guidance and preparing to meet their Lord the only Creator from the
beginning to the end who has no partner whether in form of son or
brother uncle or relative neither is He the father of any of his
Creation be him human being Angel Jinn or animal nor is He the husband
of any woman in form of wife. There is no God save Him (Allah) the
Eternal neither slumber nor does sleep overtake Him. Unto Him belongs
whatsoever is in the Heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Who is he
that intercedes with Him except by His leave. He knows that which is in
front of them and that which is behind them while they encompass nothing
of His knowledge save what He wills. His throne includes the Heavens
and earth and He is never weary of preserving them. He is the Sublime
the Tremendous. Allahu Akbar what a beautiful verse described beautiful
by the One with most beautiful names Allah (S.W.T).
So this is why in the next Verse after this Verse called Ayatal Kursi
or Verse of the Throne which described the sublime qualities of Allah in
a beautiful manner continued with there is no compulsion in Religion so
truth is clear from falsehood. Similarly everyone knows what is right
and what is wrong as mentioned good and evil had been clearly expounded
so is up the people to discern .So he who rejects false deities and
believes in Allah has grasped a firm handhold which will never break
and Allah is Hearer and Knower. Imagine the evil we see daily spreading
all over the world and people are so misguided yet thinking they are
fully guided but unfortunately they are the kind of people whose effort
has gone astray in this life of the World and yet they reckon that they
do good work. Alas they disbelieve in the revelations of their Lord and
meeting with Him. For this therefore Allah says their works are vain and
on the Day of Judgement We assign no weight to them. So the Quran has
clearly expounded everything good and evil making it clear for us to
follow if you believe and follow it with good work you will be rewarded.
For every man’s augury would be fastened on his neck and nobody would
take the responsibility of the other .If you do well you see good
similarly evil begets evil. On the Day of Judgement Allah with his
infinite wisdom would bring out this man’s augury (all the information
concerning his/her activities in the World good or bad) in form of book
(in form of microchips like the computer) spread wide open. It will then
be said to him “Read your book your Soul suffices as reckoned against
you this Day. Therefore Allah says whoever goes right it is only for his
own soul that he goes right, and whosoever errs, errs only to its hurt.
Clearly He completed the statement by saying No laden soul can bear any
others load meaning everyone will only carry his own burden. So exactly
like the law of this world if somebody steals something he is going to
be responsible for the same burden it will not be shouldered by his
relative son or father, similarly is the case of the Hereafter no
Prophet or saint would carry the burden of our sins nor shall we carry
the burden of others. Every one will carry his own load. If we do good
we see good evil with evil as clearly expounded so is up to us to chose
before it is too late when our eyes close and we prepare to go to our
destination which every one is heading that is the life Hereafter. On
that journey you are not expected to carry anything which you amassed
whether lawful or unlawful defending on your choice all you would carry
is your deeds good or evil. Therefore whoso does good an atoms weight
will see it and who so does ill an atoms weight will see it then. So the
choice is ours we know what is good and what is bad. Good leads to
Paradise and evil leads to hell even in this World for example a person
can have plenty of wealth but as we know it does not give satisfaction
or tranquillity although he has such enormous wealth acquired unlawfully
yet he is not happy he wants take his live. So it means wealth or power
does not give respect but only righteousness and piety gives a person
degree of respect .As we can see from everyday life you may have
everything but no body respects you. Why is it although you acquired the
things but because they were unlawful they would never bring you respect
or peace of mind. So is up it individual to follow and become
successful in both the worlds Duniyah (World) and the Akhirah
(Hereafter) by doing good or evil. The enjoyment of this world compared
to the Hereafter as mentioned by the Prophet is like some one dipping a
needle in the ocean and takes it out how much water does it decrease
from the ocean. So Virtually bragging with the little worldly possession
we have is nothing but sheer arrogance and ignorance which had been
misguiding us until we arrive in the grave which would be too late. So
an intelligent person as clearly stated by the Prophet is he who
controls himself and then makes preparation for the Hereafter and a
foolish one is he who follows his desires (wishful thinking) and hopes
good from Allah (without doing any good deeds ending in Hell Fire sign
of total failure.).So it is left to us to follow the good or evil which
have been clearly expounded in the Quran and the Sunnah of Prophet
Muhammad who is the last of the chains of Prophets sent by Allah for the
guidance of mankind a role model to every one to follow. He is the best
model for the whole mankind from King to pauper a judge to accused,
neighbour to good human being, father and son or daughter and her mum,
preacher and warrior from recruit to general in the army, commander and
the commanded, a Doctor with his patient, believer and disbeliever
married or unmarried ,husband and wife pious and impious all making
effort to rectify their lives for the benefit of the Hereafter called
the Akhirah. So what Allah has made lawful in the Quran if you analyse
them carefully you will find they are beneficial for the mankind,
similarly what He has made unlawful such as drinking, gambling, usury
fornication and adultery, killing without a just cause, backbiting and
slandering others, usurping and acquiring illegal wealth called Haram,
and many more others mentioned are all harmful to the society in
particular and mankind in general. Therefore following desires as in the
so called advanced countries with the intension to gain peace is
bringing nothing but misery despite their material progress and
advancement. They try to gain peace with these materials through the so
called freedom making animals to have more rights than human being gay
than a married couple is bringing nothing but disaster to the whole
humanity and Allah will not change the condition of people until they
change what is in their hearts. He coined a beautiful similitude: a
town-ship that dwelt secure and well content its provision coming to it
in abundance from every side but it disbelieved in Allah’s favours so
Allah made it experience the garb of dearth and fear of what it used to
do. Therefore if we disbelieve in the good and bounties given by Allah
we would be experiencing such problems like insecurity hunger and many
more malaise and evil things that would be bedevilling our society. So
we must change and accept the right otherwise if we continue to maintain
the wrong attitude with the intention of maintaining the status quo we
will continue to be regretting for the rest of our lives till death with
no return. So the ball is in our courts left to us to follow good or
evil no one will force the other only our conscience will tell us to do
good or evil. May Allah give us the tawfiq (ability) all to follow the
right guidance. Amen
