Life of Paradise
English book, p. 27
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
LIFE OF PARADISE Paradise is where all pleasures will be given to man abundantly and in complete form, and where man’s limitations about the capacity to enjoy those pleasures will be done away with. As a result, Paradise will become a place of eternal joy for man. Some years ago, I met a person. I told him that the present world is temporary, while the Hereafter is man’s eternal abode. Therefore, a man should build his ‘paradise’ in the eternal world. That person remarked that man gets bored after some time with a thing that gives him comfort or pleasure. Thus, there is a significant boredom problem in the ‘developed’ world. In such a situation, what is the use of eternal Paradise? Those who do not believe in the Hereafter often talk like this. However, such talk is based on a misunderstanding. The Truth is that boredom happens because of the cessation of the capacity to enjoy rather than the desire to enjoy. People who argue against the existence of the Hereafter

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