In the present world, man is given ease and hardship by turns.

But here, neither is comfort given as a reward nor is hardship imposed as a punishment.

The purpose of both is to put human beings to the test.

This world is a great examination hall.

There are two kinds of human beings in this world.

One is entirely focused on man and his activities, while the other is entirely focused on God.

The latter see the powers of God with their own eyes.

The former is never able to have control over impatience and anger.

How weak man is, yet how powerful he considers himself to be!

But the right way of thinking is that which accords with divine knowledge.

The experience reminds him that there is very little time at his disposal and that at any moment death can come calling.

However, we are so involved in worldly things that we never stop to think about the day which is fast approaching us.

This world has not been created for reward: it has been created for the trial of man.

A man should pay real attention not to what he has received or what has been taken away from him, but to how he reacted on each of these occasions.

The correct and required reaction is that a man should not be disheartened if he suffers some loss, nor should he develop feelings of pride and vanity if he gains something.

Man has never been able to free himself from hardship.

This shows that he is subordinate to some Superior Power.

Similarly, man’s eyes show that there is also a Superior Eye which is watching him.

Those who support unadulterated pure Truth suffer a loss in the current system, so people think that such individuals are ruined.

But there is a promise from God that He will fully compensate them for their sacrifices.

In the eternal world after death, He will bless them with an extremely good life.

True prayer is a spontaneous expression of the firm belief that all powers vest in God.

In this world, the hardest task is to abstain from vain pursuits and to lead one’s life as an embodiment of peace.

To this end, one has, of one’s own free will, to change a life of freedom into a life of limitations.

This is the most difficult sacrifice, which can be offered only by one who is truly God-fearing.

This world being a place of trial, everyone has been given freedom.

It often happens that those who espouse the cause of unadulterated truth invite the wrath of the upholders of falsehood.

Indeed, they become objects of hatred even in their own communities.

But, in the life hereafter, the position will be reversed: the entire atmosphere will favour those devoted upholders of the pure and unadulterated truth; here in this world, having eschewed worldly honour and popularity in their staunch support of the truth, they will find in the afterlife, that they are rewarded with the highest possible esteem.

One whose discovery of God is such that he is awe-struck by Him becomes different from other men, in that his God-fearing mentality makes him extremely serious.

The question of whether a man is a true believer is decided on the basis of how he conducts himself in extraordinary rather than in ordinary circumstances.

It becomes clear, on such occasions through a man’s overt actions whether he is in actual fact what he claims to be.

Those who prove to be steadfast in their belief and convictions under extraordinary circumstances, will be treated by God as believers in the true sense.

This kind of life requires an earnest struggle, and only those who have absolute faith in God and who have made God’s expected reward their sole focus, are capable of remaining steadfast on this thorny path.

Sometimes a change is necessary in the mode of performing a task.

Why is this?

It is because they see truth as destructive to the dream world they have built up; they view it as damaging to their own interests and honour, as threatening to the comfortable, secure lives to which they have become accus- tomed.

The price of Paradise is one’s own self.

Common people live on the strength of materialism, while the Faithful live on the strength of ideas.

To live on the level of ideas means that a man lives for the remembrance of God.

The angels’ inaudible discourse should be audible to him.

Trouble softens a man’s heart and jolts him out of his moral slumber.

Trouble prods and sharpens a man’s mind.

If he refrains from negative reaction, then trouble will become the best Divine instruction for him.

To be blessed with progress even after being guilty of arrogance is very dangerous.

It is a sign of the fact that God has decided to catch hold of the culprit at the point where he has become most fearless of God’s punishment.

God imposes various types of difficulties on man so that his heart may soften, he may give up his reliance on anything other than God, and his haughtiness—which prevents him from accepting the Truth from outside may diminish.