Islam As It Is man, know theyself!
very far ahead (so we think!) in the future. Between us and these perils there stands the wall of death, which no human eye can penetrate. We do not see behind it the engulfing smoke and fire of Hades. Although people respond immediately to the air raid siren, they remain unaffected by divine warnings of calamity: The absolute certainty of their doom has no immediacy and, this being so, they do not feel any urge to begin leading righteous lives to atone for their sins. God Almighty, however, has given us not only our two eyes with which to perceive the external world, but also a ‘third eye’ with which to scan the invisible realities beyond the normal limits of human perception. This third eye is the intellect. People remain in a state of doubt and ignorance, because they do not care to use this ‘third eye.’ They reckon that the total reality is what they can see with their own two eyes. If they were just to give the matter some earnest thought, they would become even more certain about what remains unseen than about what is visible. What is the one reality that everyone has to ~ 16 ~