Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

hole OF HISTORY IN RISE & FALL OF NATIONS
spate or if the ocean is flowing and someone
throws a stone, there is no such immediate consequence.
Of course, there will be some movement
in the water, but it is a difierent question
whether it is palpable. When the consequences
of the misdeeds of a nation go on accumulating, a
time comes when it is given no further respite and
is immediately disgraced and thrown from its
high pedestal. In the chapter ai-‘ Asr ( Time), God
has sworn by Time and made the following remarks
:
[*'By the (token of) Time (through the Ages), verily
man is in loss except such as have Faith and do nghteous
deeds’ 1 (ciii. 1-3)J.
The first condition is that man should have
belief. Belief means that conviction, that complete
self-satisfaction and that perfect profession
which comes before action. Unless a man has
absolute trust and perfect conviction he cannot
achieve success. If one is disturbed by doubts,
°he should take it that one is spiritually dead.
If is clear that this belief and this conviction
Cdn be attained only by that individual and that
Nation which has an ideal
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and which works for