Prepare for the Eternal Future

Prepare for the Eternal Future freewill man is an exceptional being. He makes his future according to his free choice. He can use this freedom, but he can also misuse it. He can avail of the opportunities that he is provided with, but he can also foolishly allow them to go waste. This fact is referred to in the Quran in different ways. For example, at one place the Quran (95:4-5) says: We have indeed created man in the best of mould, then We cast him down as the lowest of the low. This is a kind of warning to man that invites him to seriously reflect on his present and his future. This verse means that God created man with great potential, but by under-utilizing his potential, man makes himself the worst case of failure. Man’s personality has two sides to it—body and soul. Scientific research tells us that the nature of these two is entirely different. Man’s body is temporary, while his soul is eternal. The soul is a non-material reality. Man’s soul is beyond physical laws, while, in contrast, his body is subordinate to these laws and is continuously subject to disintegration. Biology tells us that the human body consists of miniscule cells. Every moment, vast numbers of these cells disintegrate and die. Our digestive system is like a cell-producing factory. It is continuously engaged in supplying cells so that the body maintains its continued existence. In this way, every few years we receive an entirely new body, but our soul continues without any such change. Hence it is said: ‘Personality is changelessness in change’.