ثُمَّ لَأٓتِيَنَّهُم مِّنۢ بَيۡنِ أَيۡدِيهِمۡ وَمِنۡ خَلۡفِهِمۡ وَعَنۡ أَيۡمَٰنِهِمۡ وَعَن شَمَآئِلِهِمۡۖ وَلَا تَجِدُ أَكۡثَرَهُمۡ شَٰكِرِينَ
Then I will come to them from before them and from behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them grateful [to You]
Sometimes God chooses a messenger to convey His word to the people, but his status as a guide is not readily acceptable to them. For this would imply that they were inferior to the messenger as they had failed to arrive at the truth. On such occasions Satan stirs up feelings of jealousy and pride. Puffed up with the feeling: ‘I am better,’ a man is not prepared to acknowledge the superiority of his brother. In the eyes of God, this amounts to treading the path of Satan. In such instances, one who treads the path of jealousy and pride makes himself deserving of the fate of hell, while one who remains humble proves that he deserves to find an abode in the gardens of Paradise. Whatever a man receives comes from God. So, the admission of someone else’s superiority is in fact an admission of the propriety of God’s endowments. Thus, denying the superiority of a well-endowed person is like the denial of God’s own decree. Similarly, when one man yields to another on the basis of some truth, he is not bowing down before just some man but before God; he does so in response to God’s command and not because of the other’s personal superiority.
جو آدمی اپنے آپ کو اس حال میں پاتا ہے کہ اس کے پاس مال بھی ہے اور ساتھیوں کی فوج بھی، اس کے اندر جھوٹا اعتماد پیدا ہوجاتا ہے۔ وہ سمجھنے لگتا ہے کہ موجودہ دنیا میں جس طرح میرے احوال درست ہیں اسی طرح وہ آخرت میں بھی درست رہیں گے۔ مگر قیامت کے آتے ہی ساری صورت حال بدل جائے گی۔ وہ شخص جو دنیا میں ہر طرف آسانیاں دیکھ رہا تھا، وہ قیامت کے دن اپنے آپ کو ناقابل عبور دشواریوں کے درمیان گھرا ہوا پائے گا۔
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