Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise
English book, p. 27
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
IN SEARCH OF TRUTH A movement must be launched to overcome this problem. Once again, man should be brought back to his original or true nature. Man should be made a man once again. Once again, man should be capable of using his intellectual potential for proper development. He should once again become actively engaged in the path of actual intellectual progress. RELIGION AND HUMAN LIFE A human personality consists of a body and a soul. To stay healthy, man requires nourishment for both. Religion is man’s spiritual nourishment. It is food for man’s soul. What is Religion? The crux of religion is what is generally called ‘Spirituality’. Religion is another name for spiritual science. If other scientific disciplines are about external or physical realities, religion is that science that studies the inner man. A human personality is manifested in two ways—body and soul. For the health and progress of both, man requires continuous nourishment. The nourishment for the body is material stuff: food and drink. If someone were to stay without food and drink for a while, it would affect their physical condition. They would die if they faced hunger and thirst for a long time. The same is true of the soul. Religion is man’s spiritual nourishment. It is food for man’s soul. Without authentic

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