Love of God
English book, p. 340
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
tension. Whatever man achieves by devoting all his energy to it, always appears to fall short of his desired ideal. To know the difference between the desire and the object of desire is the greatest wisdom. One who knows this difference will engage in the realistic planning of his actions and then he will reach the destination of success. Such a person will never suffer from tension. THINK, THINK, THINK Man is sent to inhabit this world not by way of reward, but as a matter of trial. God has granted this freedom only to find out who makes proper use of his freedom and leads a principled life and who misuses it. In the eternal period after death man will be awarded reward or punishment, according to the record of his life on earth, in Paradise or hell. If a living man appeared all of a sudden from a cave, all the beholders would regard this as astonishing. Everyone would start thinking about how this could happen. The birth of a child out of his mother’s womb is also of the same nature— astonishingly strange. People know a child comes out of the mother’s womb but they don’t think about it as anything out of the ordinary. What is the reason for this difference? The reason is that a baby coming out of the mother is an everyday experience. People have become used to it and that is why they take it

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