English book · Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise

This World and the Hereafter

English book, p. 142

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

There is just one cause for this failure. And that is, everyone wants their dreams fulfilled in this world. But the experience of tens of thousands of years has proved a single point—that the present world is insufficient for this desire to be fulfilled. The limitations of the present world and the improper use of God-given human freedom are decisive barriers to the present world becoming a place where human dreams can be fulfilled. We are still on the journey towards making our life successful when death overtakes us. We invent new machines, but new industrial problems emerge. We make great sacrifices and usher in new political systems, but the degeneration of those who come to occupy the seats of power, do not allow these new systems to function effectively. We want to craft a life of our dreams for ourselves, but other people’s envy, jealousy, pride, oppression and revenge come to the fore, and we get entangled in all of this, so much so that we see the little nest that we had hoped we could find safety and shelter in crumbling before our eyes, and then we depart from this world. All these continuous experiences prove that the world of our dreams cannot come into being in the present world and under the present conditions. For this, another world, and other conditions, are needed. Our hopes and dreams are in themselves a real human quest. But the place where our longings will be fulfilled is the next world, the world after death, and not the present world, the world before death.

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