TRYING TO DECEIVE GOD

Maximizing One’s Guilt

A CHARACTER is mentioned in the Quran in these words: They seek to deceive God and the believers, but they only deceive themselves, though they do not realize it. (2: 9)

Who does the work of deceiving God? This is the same person who, in order to create his positive image in the society, speaks in such a way that the common people get misguided about him. They accept his lies as true, and consider the fabrication as reality. To be cautious in one’s worldly affairs, and to consider superficial expectations about the Hereafter sufficient, is like lying before God. Those who do so are as if they are deceiving God, the Lord of the universe. However, trying to deceive God is to double one’s guilt. Man must save himself from such an endeavour at all cost.

For example, why differences arise between people? In fact, there is no real justification for conflicts and differences. At the root of differences is always some personal interest. However, people justify their disagreement by offering some lame excuses which apparently legitimizes these conflicts. They give the name of justified disagreements to their personal grievance.

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God knows under which psyche one is raising the flag of disagreement. People should know that in the Hereafter their case will be judged by the facts, not by what they utter.

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This is what is called in the Quran as ‘seeking to deceive God’. That is, their real purpose is self-interest. But they use words that conceal their true purpose, and show that they are doing so only for the sake of truth. Such an approach is called deceiving God. God is the Knower of the unseen world. He is aware of all the facts. He knows under which psyche one is raising the flag of disagreement. People should know that in the Hereafter their case will be judged by the facts, not by what they utter.