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Life Death and Beyond

English book, p. 148

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

knowing this law one can get a fully convincing and satisfactory explanation of human life. According to this law, the world before death is the stage for a person to sow seeds of action and the world after death is the stage where he reaps the harvest of his actions. A person should spend his life in this present world engaging in actions that will bear him a rich harvest in the post-death phase of life, instead of uselessly wasting it in seeking pleasures here. If we spend the present phase of life in the right way, in the world after death we can hope for a place in Paradise, where one can obtain everything good that one desired in the present world but couldn’t get. The Road to Success When a road is built to connect one place with another, signboards are placed along the way. They inform travellers about the right direction in order to reach their desired destination. The traveller who follows the signboards properly will definitely arrive at his destination. The journey of life is like a road. On this road too there are signboards. For the person who wants to travel on the road of life and arrive at his desired destination it is necessary to read the signboards that have been placed along the way and follow their instructions. In this regard, the first and foremost thing to do is to select, after deep reflection, a road for oneself, a road that one must never have to leave. To keep changing one’s road is to

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