Living in God's Glory
English book, p. 55
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
LIVING FAITH kinds of people inhabit the earth—the good, the bad, and the indifferent. however, the next life will unfold in an ideal world—that of the hereafter—in which not the slightest flaw will be permissible. There, the only ones to attain positions of honour will be those who have proved themselves worthy in the present world of trial, in the sense that they have differentiated between the true and the false. Those who indulged in pride and made polytheism their religion lived on an unrealistic plane. Their lives were full of falsity and illusion. Paradise is for those sublime souls who live in the consciousness of God’s eternal greatness. Those lowly debased creatures preoccupied with their own greatness and revering others besides God can never enter its gates. LIVING FAITH Living faith in God means seeing God as having limitless powers. One who finds such a God does not remain the same person as before having had this experience. one way to see a lion is to look at a stuffed one in a museum. The other way is to see it alive, roaming in the jungle. The one in the museum is just a skin, stuffed and propped up to make it look as if it is alive and standing. outwardly, it appears like a lion, but it is a lion in form only. People look at such a ‘lion’ only for instruction or for recreation. no

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