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Love of God

English book, p. 272

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

a personality is formed in a person as may be called selfcentered. It is this self-centered personality that creates the feeling or the sense of one’s own greatness, and the result of this sense of self-centeredness is that all those negative qualities are engendered within a person which can be described as pride, jealousy, oppressiveness, violence, revengefulness and more. If one remembers death it can be the killer of all such negative feelings. One who has a living consciousness of death in the real sense, and who discovers the reality that he has to die one day and that after death he has to appear before the Lord of the World, he becomes a man cut to size. Such a man becomes modest to the ultimate extent. The feeling of personal greatness will disappear from such a person. Then he will start living with the feeling of total helplessness. He will start acknowledging and accepting others. He will surrender before truth, instead of trying to make the truth surrender before him. THE EXPERIENCE OF DEATH We should prepare for our Hereafter in this world itself. We can only reap the consequences of our previous actions in the Hereafter. There will be no prospect of a new beginning there. Nine-time Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova was regarded as the greatest female tennis players of all time. When she was 55, she went to a doctor for a medical

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