The standards of fair and foul get confused and vision blurs...

The standards of fair and foul get confused and vision blurs when the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper. In his private meditation, he finds faults either with faith or the reality on ground. When the belief in Allah is ingrained in heart that He is the Creator and Omnipotent, a passion incites man to worship Him. But if one does not experience the versatility of Allah in this world, his belief gets impaired and a contradiction in belief and knowledge about Allah comes to fore.

Such an unfortunate state of mind benumbs the impetus and passion for the subservience to Allah. The belief actually charges all acts like electric current and becomes a driving force. But if not affirmed by external reality it gasps its last. A total spiritual devastation. Where Do We Stand? Reward, retribution, Paradise and Hell are our faith. Every good deed, it is observed, does not, at times, produce good results. Similarly, every bad deed does not, every time, bring about bad results.

It is a deceptive situation. All depends upon the social dynamics. But when our observation does not conform to our faith, and knowledge too does not come to our rescue, we lose confidence and go astray. The foundation of our faith is laid on the unseen: Those who believe in the unseen. (Qur'an (al-Baqarah) 2:3.) We have not seen Allah, His Angels, the Day of Judgement, Paradise and Hell, but we believe in them because the Prophet (A) has told us, ‘they are.’ Our faith is based on the unseen.

The common man’s faith is based on the unseen, which intrinsically warrants the endorsement. If the faith is not endorsed, it gets weakened with the passage of time. The faith is an impetus for action. If faith is strong, action will also be strong and vice versa. An educated young Muslim today cannot deny existence of Allah and the Holy Prophet (A) because he is born in a Muslim family. But he falls victim to the worst type of uncertainty of faith for he is not well grounded in it.

Many of us particularly youngsters, who apparently do not deny Doomsday, do not accept it completely because they have not experienced any creditable result of believing in Allah and His Prophet (A). They doubt even the credibility of resurrection for he has yet to experience the credibility of things related to his belief in the unseen. His heart forces him to believe but his intellect spurns it. This contradiction between heart and intellect exists incessantly.

We deny the reality while performing the acts.