Advanced Introduction to Paradise

positively, they can be the decisive factors for actions that help a person become eligible for Paradise. The story of almost every person’s life is the same—and that is, chasing after one’s desires and dying without fulfilling them. For the fulfillment of one’s desires, so many factors are needed, that to put them together is not within the power of man, even if he lives a very long life and all the wealth and power of the world come under his control. For example, a man can build a house but cannot stop an earthquake from happening and destroying it within seconds. A man can take great care of his body to make it physically strong, but he cannot change the compulsory law of death. Man can accumulate all sorts of pleasures and luxuries, but he cannot put an end to their limitations when deriving pleasure from them. Man can collect all kinds of objects of comfort, but he cannot change the law according to which man is susceptible to illness and accidents. This experience proves that what is in man’s control is only action, not the results of his actions. Man has the freedom to act but he cannot perform the actions needed to build a new, ideal world. Only God, the Creator, can create a world. In such a situation, a person who engages in actions in the hope of thereby building an ideal world for himself in this world is only giving evidence of being unrealistic, and it is a fact that no positive result can be produced through unrealistic thinking. If we keep this before us and reflect, we may realise that man should be willing to accept a fundamental division