Life Death and Beyond

of it. He eagerly awaits it. This thing is the Number One item on his wish list. In this present world there is no one who doesn’t have something or the other as the focus of his hopes and desires in this way. A person of faith in God is he who has written Paradise on his wish list—the world of eternal and perfect blessings, where he will see his Lord, where he will live in the shade of God’s blessings, where he will be in the company of the righteous, where he will be free of all vain and sinful talk, want and fear, where there will be perfect peace and delights that have no limits. How to Attain God’s Neighbourhood What is Paradise? Paradise is actually the name for living in the neighbourhood of God (Quran 66:11). In the world before death, a person of faith spends his life in the neighbourhood of God at the level of spiritual feelings. In the world after death, he will get an opportunity to spend his life in the neighbourhood of God in actuality. God is the source of all virtues and goodness. That is why we can get true peace only in the neighbourhood of God. Anything less than that cannot become a means for true peace. The present world is a testing ground. Here, those people are being selected who, in terms of their qualities, will be eligible to be settled in the neighbourhood of God. These are those whose thoughts, emotions and actions conform to the ethical standards required for being a neighbour of God. This