English book · GOD AND THE LIFE HEREAFTER

Seek The Eternal World

English book, p. 45

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

SEEK THE ETERNAL WORLD and enough money to meet his needs. But, on the other hand, the conditions of rich people are not significantly different. Having money creates even more significant problems for a rich man than a poor man with no money appears to face. A famous man, whom people constantly surround, is so troubled and miserable within that he cannot get a wink of sleep at night without consuming sleeping pills. In short, every person in this world is unhappy—each in different ways. Even if you save yourself from unfavourable conditions and acquire joy and peace, how long will that state last? Even if you garner, by some means or the other, an enormous treasury of joys, it will keep you happy only for a few days, at the very most. And then the Angel of Death will suddenly come to take you, and all your wealth or the army you mustered to protect you will not be able to save you. Death overtakes everyone— rich and poor alike. It enters triumphantly into both the palace and hovel. Death is a person’s greatest compulsion. Death reminds a person to rise beyond ‘today’ and

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