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Love of God

English book, p. 276

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

live. And now they have died one-by-one. Finally, of the six brothers and sisters, I am all alone. They have left this world to reach another world. They can neither see me nor can I see them. Death has permanently separated my sisters and brothers from me. What is death? Death is a compulsory expulsion from this world. In the present life, everyone builds a new world for himself—home, property, business, children, relations, popularity, a social circle, post, social position, etc. On the basis of all these things everyone has a world great or small, within the compass of which he spends his days and nights. He regards this as his own world. But, all of a sudden, the time of death comes and the Angels take him out of this present world compulsorily and take him into another world, where he has nothing except his own existence. The event of death is understandable only to one who has a living concept of this reality. Successful is one who has developed a personality that is worthy of being accepted in the Hereafter by God Almighty. BEFORE DEATH, AFTER DEATH The present world is a testing ground. Death puts an end to this period of trial. After death, a man enters a new world where he will deal with the consequences of his own actions. In the whole of human history, man’s most serious instance of forgetfulness is the inevitability of death. There are very

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