Life Death and Beyond
English book, p. 125
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
World of Action, World of Reward death. But about matters related to the life after death no one feels the need to think deeply. This is an utterly strange phenomenon of not knowing despite knowing! We know we will die one day, but we behave as if we never will! We hear about people dying every day, but we think that we will never meet the same fate! World of Action, World of Reward The present world is the arena of action, and the Hereafter is the arena for acquiring the results of our actions. A very small portion of the life of every person is spent in this present world. Then, after this, he is taken to another world, where, his fate will be determined in accordance with his actions in the world before death. In this sense, the present world is a place for our examination. An examination hall is a place where students spend some time in order to be examined, not a place where they obtain the results of their examination. If a student wants to acquire a job while still sitting in the examination hall and even before writing his examination, he will definitely fail! In the same way, a person who wants to build an eternal palace of joy for himself in this present world is never going to succeed—because the present world hasn’t been made for that purpose at all! Wise is he who understands this difference and who, while being in this world, does here what he has to and desires for the Hereafter that which can be had only there.

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