Realization of God

Learning Lessons from Mundane Occurrences into Paradise. God-realization makes a person, a man of truth and the truth becomes the means of taking a man to Paradise. Learning Lessons from Mundane Occurrences O ne quality of the godly person described in the Quran is the willingness to learn lessons (15:75). Learning lessons means recognizing some internal qualities from external signs. One who is able to learn lessons from things and experiences, can derive spiritual food therefrom. The ability to learn lessons is extremely necessary for the attainment of maarifah. One who does not have this capacity will certainly never attain to maarifah. On one page of a 60-page magazine, published in 2010 by Australian Education International, a largescale world map on the one hand shows India in white and on the other hand, at a distance of one thousand miles, it shows Australia in green. Indian youths are addressed in this Indian map with these words, “You are here.” The caption on the map of Australia reads, “Your future is there.” On seeing this map, all of a sudden it comes to mind that man today is in a world prior to death, while his