Wise are they who prepare for the day of reckoning by placing themselves today on the divine scales of justice.
Wise are they who prepare for the day of reckoning by placing themselves today on the divine scales of justice.
There are two levels of God realisation—the rational and the natural. Believing in the existence of God and the Hereafter at a rational level is the initial stage of realisation, whereas believing at a natural level represents the ultimate realization. The purpose of using rational arguments is thus merely to remove the veil of doubt from man, who needs to be brought to the point where he accepts the reality of God and the Hereafter without question, as at least a probable truth.
Therefore the use of argument and logic on the question of God and the Hereafter is meant merely to assist man to ascent that intellectual level where he is willing to accept the existence of God and the Hereafter as an ideology. When man reaches that state, the doors of his nature get automatically opened. He comes to recognize it as natural truth and adopts it.
The fact is that every human being has this burning desire to comprehend his Creator, the God and the Hereafter, but conditioning or mental block obscures these matters. The task of logical argument is to break down this conditioning, and remove the artificial screen from the eye of nature. Then nothing can come in the way of “seeing” God and the Hereafter. At this stage, man will be fully convinced of the invisible existence of God, just as a child is fully convinced of the existence of his mother, although he has never seen himself being born of his mother.