Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise
English book, p. 129
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
GOD AND THE LIFE HEREAFTER they do not allow it to influence their material existence despite believing in it as an article of faith. This is man’s greatest omission. Engrossed with this ephemeral world, he fails to realize that the day he leaves for the next eternal world, it will be as if a veil has been removed. And on that day, he will regret his negligence. But regret will serve no useful purpose. He will have lost his ‘tomorrow’ for his ‘today’. Just as the true scientist can see ‘two tables’, the faithful servant of God can discover the ‘two worlds.’ And it is he and he alone who, by the grace of God, will enter victoriously into the divine Paradise of the Almighty. SEEK THE ETERNAL WORLD Death reminds a person to rise beyond ‘today’ and think of ‘tomorrow’—the eternal world after death. A truly successful person draws this lesson from death. Turtles live up to 500 years. Some trees can remain standing for a thousand years. Mountains and rivers can retain their glory for millions of years. But human life is not more than 60-100 years. Man, who appears to be the noblest and superior of all creatures, lives a comparatively short life. Stranger still is that this short human life is a continuous story of failure. An individual’s life is so full of sorrow that the few moments of joy he experiences seem to be nothing

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