Only Positive Personalities Will Find Entry into Paradise
English book, p. 95
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
ONLY POSITIVE PERSONALITIES WILL FIND ENTRY INTO PARADISE Only a positive personality will find entry into the ideal world of Paradise in the Hereafter. Such a personality looks at the positive in everything. He finds opportunities for growth where others only see destruction. He extracts positive lessons from negative experiences. What is the description of a positive personality who can be found deserving of Paradise in the world Hereafter? The following example of a Japanese person helps us understand this. An Indian man had the opportunity to visit Japan for the first time. During a conversation with his Japanese host, he said sympathetically: “America treated your people very unfairly. It dropped the first atomic bombs in history on your country, reducing two of your cities to rubble.” This question could have provoked the Japanese to react. However, the Japanese host replied calmly: “Not at all. Those bombs turned out to be a blessing in disguise for us. Before the war, these cities—Hiroshima and Nagasaki—were built in an outdated manner, with narrow, winding streets, dilapidated houses, and unhygienic

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