WHY DO WE SEE SOME DISBELIEVERS IN AFFLUENCE AND PROSPERITY, IF SO?

      This is an old question that: ``We see many believer and honest men or nation, living a hard, unlucky life, and vice versa.''

This question may be answered by considering two points:

1- It is wrong to think that anyone who is wealthy and rich, he is prosperous and happy too. We may think that any nation who has advanced in industry and technology, they are fortunate and lucky. If we consider them with more attention, we find them the slaves of psychological and mental diseases- so much so that a great many of them must always carry some tranquilizing tablets and soothing medicines with them.

      The plants, besides contaminating our living environment, have their own disadvantages and weak points that are not few.

      Just now that I am writing these lines of the commentary, a news has been broadcasted that, in New York, the electric power has failed by some fault for a couple of hour, and people have fallen in darkenss. The news say: ``In the dark of the night hundreds of shops have been plundered- girls in the streets have been attacked and several men have been murdered! and that the police of New York has arrested three thousand men for robbery!'' That is to say; in an advanced and civilized and wealthy town, in a while of darkness due to the pause of power; thousands of people who claim to be civilized and educated, have invaded each other's life, prosperity, and their women's chastity! and they have neither feared their police nor their Lord.

      The same cut off of main power has frequently happened in where they are called arreared countries, but nothing of this kind of evil deeds happen. This is because, to some extent, the inhabitants of these countries believe in God and His reckoning.

      2- Someone may ask; why some Islamic countries who believe in God, and their principle tenet in morality to aviod evil, are so much lagging behind the carvan of progress?! The answer is:

      ``Being a nominal Muslim with some pretence of piety and virtue will never answer! Islam's Holy Book, began its carrier with the word: `EGHRA= READ, in its imperative mood. Islam is a religion of science, knowledge, and thought. In the sight of our prophet; an hour of thinking and contemplation worths a life time of worship and prayer! And one of the most important and most heard and uttered slogans of Islam is: ``The most honoured of you in the sight of Allah, is the most virtuous (pious) of you.''

      Belief is not merely a claim on the tip of one's tongue. In the sight of our prophet, it is testification at the heart, admission by the tongue, and action by the limbs.

      Unfortunately nowadays, Islamic instructions and rules and laws have been abandoned and are forsaken in almost all Muslim countries, and rare are the true Muslims although immense they count in the number! Just like Christians, to whom this applies that: ``There was only one Christian, and he was hanged!''