On The Threshold of Paradise

ON THE THRESHOLD OF PARADISE The present world is now reaching its end. Now, the time has finally come for man to awaken, take lessons from the signs in nature and history, and plan his life according to God’s creation plan so that it will avail him in his postdeath period. One who loses this opportunity must know that another such opportunity will not come again. Man has been seeking a Paradise on Earth for thousands of years in response to his natural urges. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution and the age of consumerism, man actually thought that he could build a Paradise on Earth, that the industrial age would culminate into the perfect world— Paradise—that he longed for. The superficiality of the notion that man could make a Paradise on Earth was savagely dashed with the coming of pollution, acid rain and global warming. And finally, the Covid-19 pandemic made man realize to the last extent that he cannot build a Paradise on Earth. The situation of the present world shows that not only is it impossible to build a paradise on Earth, but the present world has almost reached its end. Such signs, both in nature and in history, appear continually. It seems that the period destined by the Creator for the present world of testing man is now reaching its end, and the time has come for this temporary world to be terminated so that the eternal world of the hereafter may replace it. These words of the Quran are indicative of this reality. “On that Day We shall roll up the heavens like a scroll of parchment. As We originated the first creation, so shall We