Seek The Eternal World
English book, p. 44
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
SEEK THE ETERNAL WORLD Death reminds a person to rise beyond ‘today’ and think of ‘tomorrow’—the eternal world after death. A truly successful person draws this lesson from death. Turtles live up to 500 years. Some trees can remain standing for a thousand years. Mountains and rivers can retain their glory for millions of years. But human life is not more than 60-100 years. Man, who appears to be the noblest and superior of all creatures, lives a comparatively short life. Stranger still is that this short human life is a continuous story of failure. An individual’s life is so full of sorrow that the few moments of joy he experiences seem to be nothing more than an aberration or even a delusion. Sickness, accidents, and old age continuously shatter our dreams, and hopes. And in the end, after spending his days on Earth in sorrow, a person accepts defeat in the face of death. A poor man is unhappy that he does not have a house

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