The Final Journey
English book, p. 63
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Ray of Hope disappear. One will only be able to express what is in one’s heart. Man will appear exactly as he was in relation to reality, rather than in the manner which he used to contrive in front of others. If people can convince others that they are in the right, then they are sure that they have been proved right. But, in fact, only those who are proved right in God’s sight are truly in the right. In the next world, only those who are truly right will be proved right. Falsehood will be exposed as nothing but false. This verse, then, does not only refer to hypocritical prostration; it gives us an indication of the outcome facing both individuals and nations. Ray of Hope T he world beyond death is, as Arthur Koestler (19051983) put it, an “unknown country”. We are all travelling towards that unknown country. The strangest and the most mysterious event of our lives is death. Everyone is anxious to know what will become of him after death. The American evangelist, Billy Graham, has written a book called The Secret of Happiness. He writes in this book that he once received an urgent message from a billionaire who wanted to meet him at the earliest opportunity. When Billy Graham reached the billionaire’s residence, he was ushered into a separate room. There, the politician addressed him in a heart-rending tone. “I am an old man,” he said, “Life

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