The Divine Organisation of History

excellent companions these are! That is God’s favour. Sufficient is God’s infinite knowledge.” (4:69-70) From this statement of the Quran, it becomes clear as to who would be the chosen people held deserving of Paradise. Four titles have been used here to describe these people. The word ‘prophet’ here refers to those who have received God’s revelations for the guidance of humanity. The word ‘siddiq’, that is the truthful, refers to those who associated themselves with the truth to the extent of enjoying a complete temperamental compatibility with prophets. The shaheed (witness) are those whose lives are so moulded with the truth that they become a witness of the truth with their whole being. The pious (saleh) refer to those whose lives are an example of a perfect coordination between their thought and action. Their actions are in full accordance with their beliefs and ideology. These are the four categories of people who will form the ideal society of Paradise. These people will not belong to any particular era or a particular society, rather, they will be selected from various imperfect societies. Keeping in view the Creator’s scheme of things, it would be apt to say that here any kind of achievement would be possible only at the individual level. So far as the achievement of perfection at the