Selection for Paradise
English book, p. 103
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Selection for Paradise for an interview, and yet the interview hadn’t taken place as yet. The Chairman said to him something like this: “Your interview is over. We have selected you, and you can join us from tomorrow!” He explained to Professor Singh that the man who had met him at the airport and had been taking him around the university was a senior professor who had also been his interviewer! The Chairman said that from the documents that Professor Singh had sent them it was clear to them that as far as his educational qualifications were concerned, he was fully qualified. But they also needed to know if he would be qualified in terms of being compatible with the university’s culture. His interviewer had been engaged in trying to find out precisely this over those several days. He had taken Professor Singh to every department in the university. He had shown him around. In the course of this process, he had observed his behaviour with students and teachers. His report about him was fully positive. And so, the university had decided to select him and was now offering him the job that he had applied for! This incident, in the form of a real example, tells us something very profound about the reality of man and Paradise. Just as Professor Singh was subjected to a detailed test by the university authorities in order to gauge if he was qualified for joining the university, every person on Earth is being tested to see if he is qualified for joining the world of Paradise. God made a vast world, the world of Paradise, a world that was in the fullest sense a perfect world, a world where everything was of top standards. God wanted that in that world He should settle such people who in terms of their character were fully qualified for it, who would live in that ideal world as ideal people. Now, God also made the present planet Earth—as an introductory model of the perfect world of Paradise. Here, all those things are found that are present in Paradise. The only difference is that Paradise is a perfect

‹ Previous page Next page › About this book Open in the reader