Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise

GOD AND THE LIFE HEREAFTER is no such thing as the experience of ecstasy or heart-based spirituality. True spirituality is obtained by activating one’s consciousness, another name for this is mind-based spirituality. This journey takes place at the intellectual level within man. It helps to develop man into a completely positive personality by purifying one’s mind of all negative items. It is such a personality that will be settled in eternal Paradise. PARADISE FOR POSITIVE PERSONALITIES Paradise is only for the individual who develops a positive personality by abandoning a life of unawareness and leading a conscious life in this world of test. According to the Quran, Paradise is for one who purifies his soul in this present world and reaches the world hereafter with a refined, positive personality. (20:76) It has been called purification of the self (tazkiyah) in the Quran. Through such purification, an individual develops a spiritual and intellectual personality in this world. Only a person who has developed such a spiritual personality in this world of test will be held deserving of entry into Paradise in the world Hereafter. It means abandoning a life of unawareness and leading a life ruled by one’s consciousness. When he faces any hurdles, he must not resort to expediency. When desires arise within him, he must crush them, and when he