yet another argument for Resurrection advanced by the Holy Qur’ān: “Does man think that he will be left aimless?” (75:36); “Do you then think that We have created you in vain, and that you will not be returned to Us?” (23:115). Just as the God-idea ennobles man’s life, and endows it with the purest and highest impulses, so does the resurrection-idea introduce a seriousness into man’s life which cannot be otherwise attained. It will be taking too low a view of human nature to imagine that with all those vast capacities for ruling nature and its wonderful forces, human life itself has no aim. If everything in nature is intended for the service of man, human life itself could not be without purpose. The Holy Qur’ān refers to this argument in the following verses: “Certainly We created man in the best make, then We render him the lowest of the low, except those who believe and do good, so theirs is a reward never to be cut off ” (95:4-6). The last words clearly refer to the higher life which is never to be cut off. It cannot be that the whole of creation should serve a purpose and that man alone who is lord of it and endowed with capabilities for ruling the universe, should have a purposeless existence. It is the Resurrection alone that solves this difficulty. Man has a higher object to fulfill, he has a higher life to live beyond this world and that higher life is the aim of human life in this world.
Another argument adduced by the Holy Qur’ān in support of the resurrection is that good and evil must have their reward. Of the whole living creation, man alone has the power to discriminate between good and evil. And so acute is his perception of good and evil that he strives with all his might to promote good and to eradicate evil. He makes laws for this purpose, and uses the whole machinery of power at his disposal to enforce them. Yet what do we see in practical life? Good is often neglected and starves, while evil prospers. That is not as it should be. “Allāh wastes not the reward of the doers of good” (11:115; 12:90 etc.); “We waste not the reward of him who does a good work” (18:30): “I will not suffer the work of any worker among you to be lost, whether male or female, the one of you being from the other” (3:195); “So he who does an atom’s weight of good will see it. And he who does an atom’s weight of evil will see it” (99:7, 8) — such are some