This Hell-Bound Caravan

This Hell-Bound Caravan People prepare long lists of other people’s mistakes. Imagine their state when angels will present them with a list of their own misdeeds! People think this life is the be-all and the end-all. Imagine their state when they will discover that the real issue was death, and not this life that lasts for just a few days! People use criteria that they have invented to convince themselves that they are in the right. Imagine their state when they will realize that only those who were right according to the criteria that God has established were right indeed! Finding a huge crowd to welcome them, people think that they are very fortunate. Imagine their condition when they will come to know that the only fortunate person is the one whom God and His angels are waiting to welcome! Every person has built a fantasy world of his own, and is happy living in it. But the Day of Judgment will destroy all these makebelieve edifices. At that time, only those who have taken refuge in the ‘edifice’ of God and are in God’s shade, will be safe. This Hell-Bound Caravan Contemplating on man’s case I thought, ‘Everyone is in search of Heaven, yet everyone is searching for his Heaven in Hell.’ Thinking further on the issue I analyzed that ‘People are searching for flowers among thorns. They are reducing their lives to rubble, while imagining that very soon a big palace of their own is going to emerge!’