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The Importance of Conscience in the Qur'an: Parting Thoughts

Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. Allah's Inspiration to Every Man: Conscience
  3. Evidence of Allah's Existence Can be Seen Through Conscience
  4. Those Who Question and Those Who Ignore
  5. Conscience and the Qur'an Show Man the Real Purpose of Life
  6. Believing in the Hereafter with Certainty
  7. How Does the Conscience Understand that It Has to be Near Allah?
  8. The Negative Powers Against Conscience
  9. Why Don't People Follow Their Conscience in Spite of Knowing the Truth?
  10. The Abode of Conscientious People in the World and Paradise
  11. The Abode of Those Who Do Not Follow Their Conscience
  12. Examples of the Rightly-guided in the Qur'an
  13. Examples of Those Who Were Astray
  14. Parting Thoughts

But Allah forgets nothing, and everything is recorded in His exalted presence. Whether a person follows his conscience or not is recorded by two angels sitting on his right and left who do not leave him throughout his life. This is related in the Qur'an:

And the two recording angels are recording, sitting on the right and on the left. He does not utter a single word, without a watcher by him, pen in hand!

Surah Qaf: 17-18

On the Day of Account, the recordings of these angels will be placed on balanced scales. On one side will be conscientious, god-fearing acts, and on the other side evil acts. The person may have long forgotten the evil that he did, or the good he postponed, but Allah will make him face every single word and every single action, no matter how minute. Certainly the words he read in this guide will be remembered and he will be questioned about it. In truth, people are aware of these facts and can, with reference to their conscience, more or less understand what is right and what is wrong. However, as we have mentioned throughout the guide, they turn their back on the truth and ignore it for the sake of their worldly interests.

Whatever we do, our conscience will not leave us until we die. Conscience is a power that works totally out of our will. It is Allah's voice. We will all continue to hear this voice until we die, but those who do not follow this voice will taste the intense regret of it after they die. Accordingly, in the Qur'an, many examples are given from the conversations in the hereafter in which those in hell confess what they failed to do in life. Therefore, in truth, everyone knows what he must and must not do and evading the conscience does no good.

'What caused you to enter into Hell Fire?' They will say, 'We were not among those who prayed, and we did not feed the poor. We plunged with those who plunged, and denied the Day of Judgement, until the Certain came to us.' The intercession of the interceders will not help them. What is the matter with them that they run from the Reminder like panicked donkeys fleeing from a lion?

In fact each one of them wants to be given an unfurled scroll.

No indeed! The truth is they do not fear the hereafter.

No indeed! It is truly a reminder to which anyone who wills may pay heed.

Surat alMuddaththir: 42-55

If you do not want to make the above speech, listen to your conscience, follow the Qur'an, follow the Messenger (SAW) and follow the rightly-guided people. Do not turn your back on the truth once it has been shown to you, and do not try to turn off the voice of righteousness within you.

In the present day, there are people who live in a manner far removed from Allah, and who even reject faith and deny the existence of Allah for their own ends. On account of their blindness and mindless fearlessness, they try to influence others and turn them away from Allah. They have put forward a whole range of inconsistent ideas and twisted ideologies by which to do this. One of these is the theory of evolution.