Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise
English book, p. 153
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
PARADISE: THE DESTINATION OF MAN on Earth, but very soon, they suddenly die and head off towards the next world, taking along with them all their unfulfilled dreams! The biggest secret of success is knowing that our life has two stages—the pre-death and the post-death stages. No one can obtain in the pre-death stage of life what the Creator has placed in the post-death stage. One can get Paradise only in life after death. For every person, the highest form of intelligence is to know these two stages and lead their lives accordingly. The world of ‘today’ is the place to make oneself eligible for Paradise, and the world of ‘tomorrow’ is the place to find the result of one’s life based on how we fare in the world of ‘today’. Every person’s task is to regard the life of ‘today’ as an opportunity to prepare for the eternal Hereafter. Their time and energy should be used to discover the divine criterion to enter eternal Paradise and plan their life in line with this discovery so that they are declared qualified candidates for God’s eternal Paradise when death comes to them. THE DESTINY OF MAN Man’s life has been structured based on the principle of action and reward. The world before death is the period for a man to sow seeds, while the world after death is the period to obtain the results of this sowing. Every person builds for himself a world of desires. He spends all his time on this project, so much so that the last

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