English book · God and the Universe

Evidence of God and the Hereafter

English book, p. 92

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

human life. In contrast, in the event of not accepting the reality of the world of the Hereafter, everything remains inexplicable, and the present world appears to be woefully incomplete and utterly absurd. In accepting the world of the Hereafter, the fact that many truthful and virtuous people depart from the world while having received no reward for their goodness here becomes understandable, for we now know that they shall receive justice in the Hereafter. Without the concept of the Hereafter, we cannot understand why many people engage in evil but do not receive any punishment for their wickedness here. However, one gets a satisfactory answer on accepting the reality of the Hereafter, for one learns that the unjust will have to face punishment for all their actions. Similarly, in the event of not accepting the reality of the Hereafter, one cannot understand how and why man takes birth here with a concept of an ideal world, but each person finally departs from this world without obtaining this perfect world. By accepting the reality of the Hereafter, this dilemma is fully resolved. Man can now live in this present world with the conviction that he might be able to obtain in the world after death the things that he desired but could not get in the world before death. In this limitless world of the Hereafter, the virtuous people will be admitted into Paradise, which will be filled with every sort of joy and comfort. However, in contrast to them, those who proved evil in the present world will be in eternal deprivation in the world of the Hereafter.

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