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PARADISE: THE DESTINATION OF MAN Spirituality is about training oneself for the world that will come after death. Spirituality is about building a divine personality. Through spirituality, a person makes himself so capable of developing a divine personality within oneself that he can genuinely succeed in the world that comes after death. Spirituality is the crux or gist of religion. Spirituality is the training ground where people develop a divine personality to obtain a place in Paradise in the period of life after death. Spiritual Progress What is spiritual progress? Spiritual progress is another name for bringing about divine awakening in one’s inner personality. For example, physical food makes a man’s physical body healthy. Similarly, through spiritual ‘food’, in the form of specific sublime experiences, called Rizq-erab (Provision of the Lord) in the Quran, man’s spiritual being is made healthy. It was July 16, 2004. There was a power cut, and the ceiling fan had stopped. I was sitting in my room in severe heat. I stayed in that condition for a long time, till finally the electricity resumed and the fan started moving. This was a moment of sudden experience for me. The fan began to move, and my body felt cool. I felt as if suddenly the period of trouble had ended, and the period of comfort had arrived. At that time, I remembered a tradition of the Prophet in which it is said that the world is like a prison for the believer. When a believer’s death comes, he will suddenly find himself in the gardens of Paradise. The