On the Threshold of Paradise

evolutionary process. Moreover, it is natural to believe that one more stage is in the offing of a perfect world—eternal Paradise in the Hereafter. Paradise is not something mysterious; it is the final stage of the known evolutionary process. So far as animals are concerned, organic evolution is a baseless assumption. However, the periodic evolution of the non-living world is generally accepted. According to this natural law, the advent of Paradise is entirely understandable. Studies show that our Earth was a ball of fire approximately ten billion years ago before it became the fantastic planet we live on today. Then, when man first came to inhabit the Earth, there was a period of what we would now call under-development. After this came another evolutionary phase in the wake of the industrial revolution—a development period. According to the evolutionary law, the Earth is heading towards a superior stage. This will be the last evolutionary stage of the planet, which we call the perfect world. In this ideal world, all types of limitations will end. By divine arrangement, justice will prevail in its most perfect form. The wicked will be removed from the Earth, and only the virtuous will enter this ideal world without pollution. Calamities will cease, and all disadvantages such as disease, accidents, old age and death will be eradicated forever. All tasks are performed by hard work in the present world: hardship and success are inseparable. Such a state of affairs will no longer prevail in Paradise, for such refined changes