"God as my witness, let justice be served"

I remember a story by Tolstoy in our English non-detail book, "God sees but waits"

A normal, happy guy with a wife and kids is arrested for a murder; a murder not committed by him. His perfect life comes to an end....he pleads in the court and ofcourse, it is the real world and he is sentenced for some 20 odd years in prison.
Murderer, in the eyes of everyone, he takes solace in believing that his wife would atleast believe in him. One day, his wife comes to visit him in prison and asks him where he hid all the money that he stole after the murder. Crushed to the core, the guy gives up all hope and goes on his daily chores in prison, without speaking to anyone. As years pass he becomes famous in the prison as the "silent oldman".

One day a new batch of prisoners come in.

AS is customary, they sit to discuss their crimes and one guy in them starts boasting about his crimes and reveals that he escaped a life-sentence for a murder he had done and the money he stole..

U guessed it.

He is the one who committed the murder for which the "silent old man" was imprisoned for.


It is some 14 odd years and the "silent old man" is released for the crime he hasn't committed..

"God sees the truth but waits"

Moral of the story: I leave it to you readers......

Let me tell me one more story,

A happy, rich guy living a perfect life staunchly believes in god.

Somehow the omnipresent, omnipotent, supreme god, in one of his moods, gets an idea to test his faith.

He takes away his riches. He wife and kids die in an accident. His relatives shun him. He gets a terrible disease and is thrown away from the village....His still believes in God and never loses his faith...

It is a long story, but the "godforsaken" difficultied or should I say "trials of life" are faced with a determined will and never-ending faith....

Finally, he dies and goes to heaven for his faith in God.

I have only one thing to say on the two-stories

"God as my witness, let justice be served"