Love of God
English book, p. 286
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
based on justice. The virtuous should be rewarded for their good deeds and the evil should be punished for their evil deeds. This is the demand of human nature. Human nature also wants there to be an afterlife where this demand for justice may be answered, because in this world it is not possible. When we think of in terms of these questions, we find that the Hereafter is an entirely real concept, that is, when we believe in the concept of the Hereafter, we find the final answers to all these questions. Then everything falls into place. AN EXPERIENCE OF DOOMSDAY Man builds a life for himself in this world. Death ushers him into another world where he is totally alone and deprived of all resources. Wise is one who makes the necessary preparations for death in advance and makes himself worthy of Paradise in the Hereafter. When one evening late in November 1984, my plane landed at the Casablanca airport, I was alone. The experience I had of that visit was a strange one. I had been invited to participate in a conference, and an air ticket had been sent to me, but I did not have the address of the venue of the programme. Nor did I have any contact number for the conference organizers. When I came out of the plane, there was no one to receive me. I wanted to make enquiries from the people at the airport, but found that everyone spoke only French, and understood neither

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