English book · Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise

Why this Contradiction?

English book, p. 91

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

CREATION PLAN OF GOD everything that he desires, man remains frustrated. Man’s bodily weakness, the decline in vitality with advancing age, sickness, accidents, and eventually death continuously negate his desires. Man obtains objects of pleasure when he desires to use them. However, he soon reaches the limits of his strength and becomes exhausted to the extent of becoming a spent force. Finally, death buries all his desires and dreams. This contradiction is not a fundamental one. It arises out of a difference in the order of things. It has been decreed that in the pre-death phase of his life, man should obtain only an introduction, in a limited sense, to his desired pleasures and that in the post-death stage of his life, he may fully receive the pleasures that he seeks. This arrangement is not accidental or coincidental. Instead, it is part of nature. It is found in the whole system of nature. In this world, whatever success man earns, he gets in line with this principle. In this world, no success is an exception to this principle. For instance, a farmer must sow and reap only after that; one must plant a sapling in a nursery and obtain its fruits only after that. An ironsmith must first smelt iron, and only then can he produce steel. In other words, in this world, everything must go through different stages. Everything first passes through its initial period and then reaches its climax. There is no exception to this principle of nature. The same issue holds for man. Man has been given an unlimited sense of enjoyment, but the objects from which he can derive endless pleasure have been kept in the second

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