Man and Paradise
English book, p. 13
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
CREATION PLAN OF GOD have the opportunity to utilize all the potentials of their minds and experience the joy of complete fulfilment. In this second period, only those who have properly trained themselves during the first phase of life will find a place in Paradise. Those who enter the Hereafter untrained will be unable to take advantage of the opportunities available there. They will be wholly deprived of fulfilment, and no harsher recompense could be conceived than this. If a person lives only in their ‘today’—indulging in the pleasures of this world—and dies in this ‘today’ as well, they lead an animal-like life and die an animal-like death. On the other hand, a truly successful person leads the life of ‘today’—the temporary world of testing—in such a way that their ‘tomorrow’—the eternal phase of life after death in Paradise—is filled with joy. Only such a person can be called truly successful, as they are on the path to Paradise. CREATION PLAN OF GOD In this world of tests, God is selecting those who are fit to inhabit Paradise in the Hereafter. To test man, God has given him complete freedom to choose his actions. Only if he uses his freedom wisely, surrenders to God, and moulds his life according to God’s Creation Plan will he qualify for Paradise. For thousands of years, man has sought Paradise on Earth due to his natural urges. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the age of consumerism, man thought that he could build a Paradise on Earth, believing that the Industrial

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