The Real Destination
English book, p. 98
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
The Real Destination Every individual seeks a secure world for himself. But all sorts of accidents and tragedies—man-made and natural— constantly intervene to remind him that we live in an unsure and insecure world. An individual wants a life in this world that never ceases. But the event of death reminds him that he has got only a very limited period of time to live on Earth. Every individual searches for ideal happiness, but different types of difficulties convey to him that here, in this world, he can only get that sort of happiness that is less than the ideal of his dreams. A human being has enormous abilities, but most people use just a very small fraction of their potentials and leave the world. Why is this so? The answer to this is present in the way a human being has been fashioned. In contrast to animals, who live only in the awareness of the present moment, man has a concept of tomorrow. On Earth, man is the only creature who has a concept of the future. It is this that is Nature’s answer to the above question. And the answer is this—that the ideal that man is searching for right now—in this present world, in the phase of life before death—is actually present only in the Hereafter, in the phase of life after death. This is in line with the Creator’s creation plan. According to God’s creation plan, a human being’s life has two parts: one, the pre-death period, and the other, the

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