Keeping one’s Mind on Tomorrow
English book, p. 148
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
KEEPING ONE’S MIND ON TOMORROW People live for the present, entirely forgetting the future. They do not realize that they are bound for the grave, where they will be brought up in the Divine Court to be judged. in 1898, lord Curzon was appointed the viceroy of india. he had two daughters. When lady Curzon was expecting their third child, she and her husband hoped that it would be a boy. however, their hopes were dashed when in March 1904, another baby girl was born to them. The couple stayed in naldara during her birth and named their daughter alexandra naldara Curzon after the place. later on, lady Curzon returned to london. in one of the letters that lord Curzon wrote to her from the summer capital simla, he consoled her with these words: “after all, what does sex matter after we are gone?” Maybe these words just signified an attempt on lord Curzon’s part to hide his frustration. however, the reality he expressed will solve most of life’s problems if one becomes conscious. Man desires money, offspring, and power more than anything else. he does all he can to acquire them. however, if a man thinks about it, finally, he will leave all these things behind. What is the good of having something which one is bound to lose? if people were only to realize this, they would

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