English book · GOD AND THE LIFE HEREAFTER

Paradise: Man’s Destination

English book, p. 13

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

PARADISE: MAN’S DESTINATION and limitations. It is as if this present world is a sort of examination hall. Here, all those ‘things’ needed to ‘write’ the ‘examination’ are available, but the higher ‘things’ are absent. If a student wants to build an ideal world in the examination hall, he will surely face only despair and frustration. Similarly, those who seek to build a perfect world in this limited and temporary world of test will face sorrow and disappointment. While we are in this examination hall—this life of ours on planet Earth—what must each person do to obtain the perfect world they desire after death? The answer to this question is that we must use our freedom according to the Creator’s Will. For life after death, God has made a perfect world, Paradise. This Paradise is, in every sense, an ideal world. God will lodge such people as prove themselves to be eligible to be settled there. In the present world, those who qualify themselves according to the divine standards will be settled in the ideal world of Paradise. Now, who are those people who will qualify for

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