On the Threshold of Paradise
English book, p. 43
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
ON THE THRESHOLD OF PARADISE a primitive world. However, he became increasingly successful at constructing a highly developed world later. This human success goes hand in hand with a continuous evolutionary process. Moreover, it is natural to believe that one more stage is in the offing of a perfect world—eternal Paradise in the Hereafter. Paradise is not something mysterious; it is the final stage of the known evolutionary process. So far as animals are concerned, organic evolution is a baseless assumption. However, the periodic evolution of the non-living world is generally accepted. According to this natural law, the advent of Paradise is entirely understandable. Studies show that our Earth was a ball of fire approximately ten billion years ago before it became the fantastic planet we live on today. Then, when man first came to inhabit the Earth, there was a period of what we would now call under-development. After this came another evolutionary phase in the wake of the industrial revolution—a development period. According to the evolutionary law, the Earth is heading towards a superior stage. This will be the last

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