Living in God's Glory
English book, p. 197
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
21ST MINUTE “Everything and everyone is disappearing—Churchill, roosevelt, stalin. What an amazing happening, and well worth recording in my diary. But that also will suddenly disappear.” (1943) What outstanding people come into this world, show their metal, and then suddenly disappear; as if their appearance and disappearance were not a matter of their own choice but the responsibility of someone or something else, who summoned them back quite arbitrarily—like marionettes disappearing at a tug of their strings! This coming and going of people, this ephemerality of life, remains inexplicable until we accept the existence of life after death, as the prophets foretold. Considering this truth, everything seems to fall quite satisfactorily into place. if life is transient, we can accept it as being so and have no regrets. however, should we reject the actuality of life after death, everything is rendered void and meaningless. 21 ST MINUTE If we consider the present life as a moment of “20” minutes and the 21st minute as an entry in the Hereafter, we can say that man is allowed to make mistakes only for 20 minutes. Then either he has to correct himself or be arrested by death. Man finds himself free in the present world. he can do whatever he wants to in this world; no one is there to hold

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