After Death
English book, p. 284
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
AFTER DEATH A study of human DNA informs us that there is one thing missing in it, that is, information of the death of the person. This is a declaration by nature that man is an eternal creature. Man’s life continues after death. With the concept of the Hereafter everything falls into place. Death is an undesirable event for everyone. Everyone wants to live for a very long period, but all of a sudden, he dies. It seems that man was on a journey, wanting to travel a very long distance, but before reaching his destination, death, unilaterally, put an end to his life. How does this happen? This is the question asked by every man and woman. Everyone wants to know how it happens. What is life? And what is death? Why is it that man wants to live longer, but long before his sojourn is over, without his permission having been taken, he has to accept the decision of death? When we ponder upon this matter, the first clue we find is in the modern discovery of DNA. As we know, DNA is stored within everyone. Everyone’s DNA is like a complete encyclopaedia of his personality. But when this DNA is decoded we learn that it is a hundred times greater than the largest encyclopaedia. Every great or small aspect of one’s personality is there in everyone’s DNA. But it is very strange how one aspect of the human personality is absent from one’s DNA. If we study the DNA of any human being, we can find out everything about him, yet there is one thing which is not possible to know, and that

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