Paradise: Man’s Destination

GOD AND THE LIFE HEREAFTER not tell him what man’s destination was. Therefore, he felt that a known man was moving towards an unknown destination. This was why he did not know the truth about man. In this sense, a more appropriate title for the book would have been Man’s Goal Unknown. It is not the problem of Dr Carrel alone. It is a problem of all philosophers and thinkers. It may have appeared that man was, for them, something known. However, the destination of that ‘known’ man has remained unknown to them till the very end. This intellectual vacuum regarding man and man’s destination has afflicted human beings for thousands of years. Speculation about man’s final destination only led people to be drowned in confusion. However, this is a lifedefining question, and its immense importance demands a satisfying answer. The fact is that philosophers and thinkers were (and still are) seeking man’s destination in this very world of today; while in reality, this destination does not exist here. Thus, they have been searching for this destination in the wrong place. Therefore, it is hardly surprising that they failed to find it. This world is incomplete, while man’s nature leads him to seek a perfect world. Man desires eternal life, while eternal life is not possible for anyone in the world before death. Man wants a world of unsullied joy, but in this world, different types of challenging conditions act as a barrier to making this world joyful. Man seeks an ideal world but is fated to live in a non-ideal world. By birth, man is a perfectionist. He seeks a perfect world.