The Happiness We All Look For

THE HAPPINESS WE ALL LOOK FOR It is essential, therefore, that all men and women who come into this world must be very prudent about this. They must value every single moment of this life more than a thousand years. They must make the Hereafter their greatest concern. They must all plan their actions wholly with regard to the future rather than with regard to the present. After a deep study, they must try to understand the creation plan of the Creator, and plan their lives accordingly. THE HAPPINESS WE ALL LOOK FOR According to God’s creation plan, the life before death is to make oneself a deserving candidate for Paradise. And the stage after death is of finding Paradise as a matter of merit. Paradise is the world of happiness which every soul has sought all along in this world. I once visited a place in Rajasthan along with a friend, one Maulana Taqi Ameeni (d. 1991). We went to meet a family living in a farmhouse far away from the hubbub of city life. They could live there because the husband had inherited a substantial amount of wealth from his father. He married a girl of his own choosing and then the couple started living in this farmhouse. Apparently this abode offered a beautiful world, but the man and woman who lived in it, presented a picture of utter sadness. Both of them married as they had pleased and then started living a happy married life in this farmhouse. Maulana Mohammad Taqi Ameeni and I stayed there, for a night and a day. But during our stay, I did not even once see the