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Spiritual Values from the Quran

English book, p. 27

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

It is an established fact that every person is born with a certain inner urge – nature’s gift to him – to reach a particular a goal. This urge is so common that there is no exception whatsoever – rich and poor, or educated and uneducated, all are born with this natural urge. So, it is an issue for all individuals. What is this goal? First of all, it is to find out one’s own Creator, to understand the creation plan of God and to grasp all those factors that are relevant to life in this world. All prophets came to guide mankind towards this goal. To this end, they received revelations which took the form of guidance from God Almighty. The only path that has no end is the road to God. It continues even after the death of human beings, both men and women. It is an unbroken trajectory into eternity, from the limited world to a world without limitations. This represents a transition from the imperfect world to the perfect world, from materialism to spirituality and, as such, is a voyage from time and space to beyond time and space. All other roads end with the death of the human being. It is a fact that a person often experiences frustration. The reason is that a human being by birth wants a complete world to live in, but in the present world he is compelled to live in a world that is not complete. Journeying on the road to God is the solution. This road takes you from the incomplete to the complete: it is the hallowed nature of God’s path that gives the traveller of this path unlimited bliss. The Concept of Death One of the most important teachings of the Quran concerns death. Death is the end of the life of every man and woman, but

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