Ephemeral Period, Eternal Period
English book, p. 345
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
EPHEMERAL PERIOD, ETERNAL PERIOD Foundation’ and gave away half of his wealth to this institute. On June 27, 2008 when he was 52, he announced his retirement from the computer business. Now he has decided that he will spend the rest of his life in the field of health and education and will maintain only formal relations with his company. The truth is that material things or material progress cannot give man real peace of mind. The present world is not devised for the purpose of man fulfilling all his desires and attaining fulfilment in the full sense. The present world is a limited world. It is designed solely to meet man’s practical needs, so that he may devote his energy to some noble divine cause and as a result be held deserving of God’s eternal reward in the Hereafter. EPHEMERAL PERIOD, ETERNAL PERIOD Everything in this present world is deceptive: it shows the ephemeral things artificially in an eternal light. Successful is one who regards the present world as a temporal phase and prepares himself for the eternal phase, in the hope of inhabiting eternal Paradise. During a student’s life one’s thinking is different from that what it becomes after the completion of his education and when he finds a good job. In the first stage, he lives as if he is a traveller, while in the second stage he lives as if he

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