End of a Period

End of a Period In the first week of June 2007 a meeting of the ‘G-8’ was held in Berlin, participated in by the heads of some of the developed countries. An important issue in the conference’s agenda was global warming. But despite long discussions on the subject, no programme was able to be decided on. A report on this important issue was published in The Times of India (New Delhi, June 10, 2007) with the title ‘Too broke to save the world’. These days, the media is flooded with news, almost on a daily basis, about global warming. Scientists from across the world are saying that the world’s climate is dangerously changing. The Earth’s life-support system will soon be so badly damaged that there might no longer be any possibility for life to remain on the planet. The time has now come very near when the present period of life will come to an end, in accordance with God’s plan, and the second phase of life, the world of the Hereafter, will begin. God had made this present world as a preparatory ground for man. Here, all those things were made available through which man could make himself worthy of Paradise in the next world. Everything in this world was a means for man to prepare for the Hereafter, rather than being simply a means to draw comfort and ease from. But man’s actions did not conform to God’s creation plan. He took the present world to be an abode for pleasure, fun and frolic and invented this formula for his life: ‘Eat, drink and be merry!’