It is also possible to photograph the imprint left by the...

It is also possible to photograph the imprint left by the fingers of thieves at the scene of a crime, thanks to the heat of their bodies. If all this is possible in this world, why should something similar not be possible for all our deeds in the hereafter? The great observatories of the world can today record waves emitted by distant galaxies, thanks to the complex receivers with which they are equipped; this permits them to uncover many mysteries and secrets.

Together with the other evidence we have adduced, this permits us to suggest that from a scientific point of view the transformation of energy into matter and, therefore, the assumption of material form by our deeds does represent a tenable hypothesis. The Non-Existence of Time Furthermore, time is relative, being the result of the motion of the earth and the sun.

If, for example, we were to travel to a certain planet, the events that take place on earth would reach the planet after the passage of a number of years determined by the distance of the planet from the earth. We would then be able to observe precisely our deeds and those of others after the passage of many years. Similarly, certain stars that emit light and are visible to us today in fact dissolved and disappeared several centuries ago.

Nothing of them remains and yet, on account of the distance that separates them from the earth, their light still reaches us on account of the distance between them and the earth. Man's sensory powers can grasp only the surface aspect of things and are unable to grasp their inner aspects. He is therefore unaware, while in this world, of the deeds that he performs here and of the beneficial or harmful effects they will have in the hereafter.

In the next life, however, whatever is hidden will become manifest, and once the book of their deeds is laid open before them, all people will see clearly the pattern their conduct has followed. The Qur'an, that book imbued with ultimate truth, describes the events that shall occur on the day of resurrection as follows: “That which was previously concealed from them shall become apparent” (6:28) .

The criminals who are bound in the fetters of their own lusts and desires will attempt to gain a measure of false tranquillity by hiding from themselves whatever is likely to harm them and burying the awareness of it deep within their beings. But the truth that they attempt to conceal will come forth to confront them.