Life Death and Beyond

In this regard, a wise person adopts the same principle that a student does. When a student is in an examination hall, his entire attention is on trying to answer his test paper as well as he can. He doesn’t try to build the palace of his dreams in the examination hall itself. A wise person has the same attitude regarding this world and the Hereafter. He puts his short life before death into preparing for the Hereafter so that after his examination in this world, he can obtain for himself an eternal world of joys—in Paradise. If a person is heedless in this regard, after he dies, it will not be possible for him to make up for it. It will be impossible for him to return to the world and again appear for the examination of the Hereafter. Why This Honoured Status? With regard to the creation of a human being the Quran (23:115) says: “Do you imagine that We created you without any purpose and that you would not be brought back to Us?” The Creator has created human beings in the best form. The Quran (40:64) says: He [God] shaped you, formed you well, and provided you with good things. Such is God, your Lord, so glory be to Him, the Lord of the Universe.