THE CRITERION for DISCERNMENT

INTERLUDE 1:

Note:

This page serves as a window into the world of this book.

It is a quiet invitation, a reminder, and a wake‑up call; to prepare your heart before stepping into the narrative.

Do you know?

When sinful practices and corruption-rooted choices become normalized and heedlessly indulged in without sincere fear of Allah SWT, and without seeking His forgiveness; such people have made themselves worthy of

THE INEVITABLE DIVINE RECKONING.

Across generations, the act of justifying corruption for personal gain and considering sinful practices as normal, or "civilization required," is the biggest tragedy the human race continually faced. Teens, youths, and adults alike.

Believe this or not, it is the justification, indulgence in, and normalization of sin and disobedience to the commandments of Allah SWT that silently derailed countless individuals from the path Allah SWT had destined for them at birth.

These practices; through forefather belief systems; rippled into the social fabric of our today generation, where many people blindly and heedlessly accept, indulge, justify, support, and even fight for the choice without root check, because of fleeting desires, or temporary gain, or out of arrogance, or because it has been considered normal/justified by those before them.

Just as those before them accepted it from those before them.

The mindset of, "Since society has considered it normal, it cannot be that bad," becomes the criterion to weigh their choices, while they significantly overlook the future spiritual consequences of their own disobedient choices; that will echo both on earth and in the Hereafter

These are people whose consciences Satan has seared through beautified illusions and the enjoyment of delusion. Their devil companion, ordained to guide their choices because they forgot Allah SWT and diverted into sin, slowly incites them to senselessness while they obey and go deeper; thinking they are rightly guided.

The compromise of the criterion to justify one sinful indulgence can become an automatic ticket for indulgence in other sinful practices that tend to benefit you if the former eventually fails; all while your devil companion make you think you are on the right path; until you eventually make the choice that brings about the total reckoning.

The normalization of sin and persistence in it is what harden the heart and blind it from accepting truth and guidance that would bring you into alignment, and thereby derail the soul far from the path of those worthy of the blessings of Allah SWT. But the hidden wisdom is, if you indulge in sin out of disbelieve, or out of naivety, or out of arrogance; because humans slip; and thereby lose the direct blessings of Allah SWT because you stepped out of alignment with Divine order, the mercy of Allah SWT still reaches you through forgiveness after repentance away; in whatever corrupt, sinful, and defiantly disobedient life you might derail into. That mercy of accepting your sincere repentance is always there, until the soul reaches the collarbone.

The real effect of ancestral error is not the rapid circulation among the people of our today generation. The real danger is the present generation refusing to examine the spiritual consequences behind those systems, practices, indulgences, and choices; while indulging blindly because of temporary gains and fleeting desires.

When you fail to reasoneflect on the implications of your own current indulgence, how then do you teach 'the later people' to discern their choices, the way of light, the way of truth, the way of living toward rewards, bounty, and blessings from Allah SWT instead of indulgence in disobedient practices that brings the wrath of Allah SWT?

If you as the parent or potential parent fail to uphold Discernment in your own choices, how then will you train your kids toward the path that leads to reward of eternal life with Allah SWT in the Hereafter?

If you look around carefully in our today generation, we now have a generation that:

-- Knows how to pray but does not fear the accountability of the Hereafter.

-- Knows how to give charity but does not think about the record of their secret deeds.

-- Knows the names of prophets but does not reflect on the fate of those who rejected the message before.

Across generations, what we fail to examine is that, when you accept, indulge in, justify, or defend falsehood, whether for the society or for family sake; without reflection, you unknowingly continue the chain of distortion that began centuries before you. Where many have died without sincere repentance and without accepting the truth. Not knowing the weight of what awaits them in the grave and what their soul carry into the Hereafter.

Learning discernment is what breaks the cycle of blind acceptance, because it asks the tough questions both in secret indulgence, and in public indulgence.

Exploring: conscience, freewill, desire, normalization, what leads into gradual forgetting.

Discernment asks: did this choice or belief system originate from Divine guidance in my heart, following the message Allah SWT sent through His messengers, and will it bring goodness to the people on earth? Or does it stem from human analogies, poems, lifestyle, devised shortcuts, negligence, ignorance, innovations that slowly drifted people away from truth after series of interpretations and misinterpretations; causing disruption and continuous spreading of corruption?

Discernment helps keep the inner criterion in check, distinguishing what is good for your spiritual development while your choices align toward activities and indulgence that only please Allah SWT and bring blessings from Him.

Discernment well trained helps see the separation between blind tradition and truth.

Discernment brings questions that return the heart to the One who created the heavens and the earth when we are making choices.

Across history, prophets were sent to challenge inherited distortions. Not because ancestors were evil, but because human memory often transforms guidance into mythology. Across time, truth gets mixed with falsehood. That is why, as human with the gift of free will, discernment in daily choices stand as the guardrail toward a life of purpose and life that pleases Allah SWT, and into making choices that bring only blessings and mercy from Allah SWT.

Satan's method is ancient and unchanging. His method is not to make evil look evil to those who indulge in it. It is to make evil look necessary, normal, or even virtuous.

The job of the devil is to strip the descendants of Adam of their spiritual clothing(sincere fear of Allah SWT) by making disobedience to the commandments of Allah SWT justifiable.

Shaytan whispers:

"You need to fit in with your friends; it's just for now."

"You're young; enjoy life first, you can repent later."

"If you don't do this, you'll be poor, alone, backward."

"The halal path is too hard; Allah will forgive you anyway." And by the time the person realizes the trap, they are often deep in the cycle; entangled in relationships, debts, crimes, ill‑gotten profits that seem impossible to return.

Satan's method is to rebrand the sinful practices, beautify them with what the new generations will love, desire, cherish, and find hard to resist. The tragedy is that, many of the descendants of Adam knows but only act ignorant of the punishment tied to explicitly going against the commandments of Allah SWT, and through their choices made themselves worthy of the inevitable Divine reckoning; while they are unaware, yet onlooking.

So,

What is The Inevitable Divine Reckoning?

What are the normalized practices that make people worthy of an inevitable reckoning?

Walk with me.