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Love of God

English book, p. 349

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

BUILDING OF THE HEREAFTER today are failures. The present world is a thoroughfare for man: it is not man’s final destination. The journey of man in this world finally leads him to the door of death through which man must pass. On the other side of death’s door, there is either eternal Paradise or eternal hell. There is no third place where man can take up his abode after death. This state of affairs is so serious that once man becomes aware of this reality, he will think more of death than of life; he will be concerned more about the Hereafter than about this world. BUILDING OF THE HEREAFTER The actual task to perform is not the building up of the world, but the preparation for the life after death in the Hereafter. In the stage of life before death, one should make oneself deserving of eternal Paradise in the Hereafter. In present times, we find all men and women busy with something or the other. They are so busy that they have no time to listen to anyone. They spend all their time and money on reaching their desired goals. What is this goal which keeps everyone so busy? It is only one—improving their worldly life more and more, building their worldly future. But death contradicts this worldly ideology. Everyone’s final destiny is to die sooner or later. He leaves the world he built for himself entirely behind him. All alone, by himself, he departs for another world without any preparation.

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