Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise
English book, p. 157
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
PARADISE: THE DESTINATION OF MAN creation plan. You can lead a truly successful life in this world only if your efforts and direction are according to God’s creation plan. If one ignores God’s creation plan, no one can lead a truly successful life. According to God’s creation plan, the temporary world before death is simply for an examination. According to this plan, living in an ideal world of ultimate joy is possible only in life after death. Given these fundamental realities, man should try to make himself successful in the examination before death so that in the stage of life that comes after death, he may obtain his desired ideal world—eternal Paradise—as a divine reward. This is the only principle for a successful life. WORLD OF ‘TODAY’, WORLD OF ‘TOMORROW’ Every person nurses an ocean of desires in his heart. The place for fulfilling these desires is the world of ‘tomorrow’, not ‘today’. If a farmer wants to harvest a crop the day he plants the seeds, he will lose the seeds and be deprived of a harvest. The same is true of both the world of ‘today’ (this world) and the world of ‘tomorrow’ (the Hereafter). The world of ‘today’ is the place for engaging in action, while the world of ‘tomorrow’ is the place for receiving the results of one’s actions. Therefore, if a person wants to obtain his

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