English book · Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise

Paradise: Man’s Destination

English book, p. 106

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

However, after all the efforts, he finds that achieving an ideal world is simply impossible here. The fact is that, unlike what Dr Carrel suggests, the unknown thing is not man. On the contrary, what is unknown is man’s destination—the ideal world that embodies man’s dreams, free of all contradictions, and where man can live with complete fulfilment forever. The insoluble problem of man’s reality becomes solved when we study man in the light of God’s scheme. That is to say, along with understanding man, the creature, one must also understand the purpose of man’s Creator in creating him. This is the proper method and approach to this matter. When the issue is seen in this way, one discovers that the confusion or lack of clarity about man was only because people tried to understand man without considering God’s creation plan. A machine is a created thing, not its own maker. Similarly, man is a creature, not the Creator. Therefore, knowing the Creator’s creation plan is necessary to understand man’s reality. Without understanding the engineer’s plan, one cannot explain the machine. Similarly, explaining man without knowing the Creator’s plan for him is impossible. Without this creation plan, man’s life and significance remain incomprehensible. However, after understanding God’s creation plan, everything becomes comprehensible. Everything falls into place. The Maker of this world has made a pair to this world. One member of this pair is the world where we live after

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