Secret of Mental Peace

Secret of Mental Peace super-achievers often turn out to be super-failures. Despite obtaining the wealth, power and status that they hankered after, they fail to obtain inner peace and joy, and, finally, they die. It is claimed that in today’s times one can score big successes. But experience tells us that many such big successes turn out to be big failures as far as the inner life of a person is concerned. Many super-achievers suffer from tremendous stress. Additional wealth only turns out to be a cause for additional tension, and even additional illness, for them. Today, stress has become so pervasive that an entire industry has cropped up in response to this situation. It is called ‘de-stressing’. In special de-stressing centres, there are experts appointed whose task is to try to cure people of stress. But despite all this, people’s stress levels are continuously rising! It is said that today, the biggest threat is not World War Three but, rather, mounting levels of tension and stress. This situation reminds us of a verse in the Quran: “Surely in the remembrance of God hearts can find comfort.” (13:28) This point was expressed by the Prophet Muhammad in the following words: “There is no joy except the joy of the Hereafter.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 2961) This means that by making God one’s supreme concern one obtains peace and that the ideal life one is seeking can be obtained only in the period after death. In the phase of life before death no one can get the ideal life he desires. This issue is directly related to God’s creation plan. God, the Creator, has made this present world as a testing-ground. The present world cannot become for us a place for the fulfilment of all our desires. This world is, for every person, a stage in one’s journey, and the Hereafter that is to come is our eternal home. If you are travelling in a train and want to have during your journey all the facilities and comforts that you enjoy at home, you will definitely be disappointed. You will not get what you