English book · Life Death and Beyond

Wall of Laughter

English book, p. 95

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Wall of Laughter industry that works for our benefit. The sun’s heat causes sea water to evaporate. Then, through a process of condensation, water, now made free of salt, falls in the form of rain in areas of human habitation. This is a natural process of desalination of sea water, another industry of Nature that creates no pollution whatsoever! These are two vastly different sort of phenomena: modern man-made industries, which are inconceivable without emitting pollution, and the pollution-free industries of Nature that are a blessing of God. The former have proven a failure in creating for us a world of joy. In seeking to produce objects of comfort, they have produced an impenetrable jungle of problems for humans that now may threaten the very survival of all life forms on Earth. But at the very same time, the industries of Nature produce a vast range of things that we require not just for our comfort but also for our very survival and are also completely pollution-free! If, in line with the story about the wall mentioned above, death is considered as the wall that divides two worlds, it would be true to say that on one side of the wall is a ‘wailing world’—a world full of pollution and racked with environmental destruction on account of human greed—and on the other side a ‘laughter world’—Paradise, a world of unending joy. The 21st century human civilization, despite having reached an impasse, is giving us a new, hope-filled lesson—and that is, that we should not try to create a ‘laughter world’ on this side of the ‘wall’ of death, for any such attempt is doomed to failure. Instead, we should focus on trying to obtain a seat in the ‘laughter world’, the world of joy that is Paradise, which lies on the other side of the ‘wall’.

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