Life Death and Beyond

the many resources it contains, is an imperfect world. This hiatus between an individual’s desire and the reality of this world is the real cause for frustration. In Paradise, this hiatus or contradiction will be fully overcome. Paradise is the ideal world that a person instinctively seeks. In Paradise, every person will enjoy complete fulfilment and contentment. There, everyone will get complete fulfilment of his desires. The Prophet of Islam has described Paradise as what “no eye has seen and no ear has heard and what has not occurred to the heart of any human being.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 3244) If you reflect on a human being in the context of his eternalness you will discover that his real problem is not success and failure in this present world, as the terms are conventionally understood. Rather, his real problem is to save himself from the punishment of eternal Hell in the Hereafter and to make himself worthy of entrance into eternal Paradise. Real Existence is God’s Alone Robert H. Court was a businessman from Australia. In 1962, he started a small mill. His business made rapid progress so much so that it grew into a big commercial empire. Court’s assets reached the 1.1 billion dollar mark. But in 1978, his decline began, so much so that he lost half his wealth. In 1990, he suffered a heart attack and died. At the time of his death he was 53. Giving news of his death the TIME magazine (September 17, 1990) reported: “Once the country’s wealthiest