God and the Universe
English book, p. 287
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
THE LIFE WE WERE SEARCHING FOR that they must protect themselves entirely from negative thinking. Those who fulfil this condition will succeed in arriving at higher levels of God-realization. It is a tragedy of history that most people, based on some issue or the other, have fallen prey to negative thinking. As they could not develop positive thinking, they could not realize God. THE LIFE WE WERE SEARCHING FOR The well-known German thinker and communist ideologue Friedrich Engels (1829-1895) believed that first of all, man needs clothing to cover his body and food to fill his stomach, and only after that can he ponder on matters of philosophy and politics. But the fact is that the first questions to which man wants the answers are existential questions, such as ‘Who am I?’, ‘What is this universe?’, ‘Who made it?’, ‘Why am I here?’, ‘How did my life begin?’, and ‘Where will it end?’. These are the fundamental questions people ask, which are rooted in human nature. Man opens his eyes to a world filled with many different things. The sun sends him light and heat, but he does not know why it is engaged in the service of man. The air blesses him with life, but it is not in man’s capacity to take hold of it and ask, “Who are you? Why are you being so kind to me?” He sees his existence but does not know who he is and

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