Two Worlds

TWO WORLDS Man’s greatest omission is to remain engrossed with the ephemeral world. But the day he leaves for the next world, and his veil is removed, he will regret his negligence. Sir Arthur Eddington, a well-known scientist, writes in his book, The Nature of the Physical World: “I have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. There are duplicates of every object. One of these tables is comparatively permanent. It is substantial. Table no 2 is my scientific table. My scientific table is mostly empty. Sparsely scattered in that emptiness are numerous electric charges rushing about with great speed.” This description could be applied equally to the entire universe. However, it is especially true of our world, which has two aspects: appearance and reality. What we see around us, we call the world. But there is also the other invisible world of the Hereafter. So when death comes, it means leaving the visible or apparent world to enter into the invisible, concealed, but the real world of the Hereafter. While our present world is visible to everyone, the next world lies behind a veil and is unobservable. That is why man makes the mistake of regarding only the present world as accurate and the other world as imaginary. Therefore, even those who believe in the Hereafter consider it an abstract concept irrelevant to their current life. That is why