ON THE THRESHOLD OF PARADISE

of verses in the Quran giving clear indications of this. For instance, “Praise be to God, who has fulfilled His promise to us and bestowed upon us the earth to inherit, so that we may dwell in Paradise wherever we please.” THE QURAN, 39: 74 Paradise is described as being ‘as vast as the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who believe in God and his Messengers’. THE QURAN, 57: 21 “The earth will shine with the light of its Lord.” THE QURAN, 39: 69 Today our world is potentially a paradise. Tomorrow this potential will become a reality and then the earth will become a place of eternal happiness and joy. Although on earth there exists nature’s life support system in its perfect form, events have shown that the present state of the earth is not an ideal one. On the earth, nature’s system may be at its best, but the simultaneous presence of good and evil make it far from ideal. Here, individuals who do good and those who do bad exist alongside each other. The presence of people who misuse their freedom is the source of all kinds of evil. But when the final phase of civilization approaches, all the bad individuals will be separated from the good. They will be deprived of all the resources of the earth, and the earth will be entrusted solely to the good. This is the truth which has been mentioned in the following verse: “And indeed, We have written in Az-Zabur, (Psalms) that My righteous slaves shall inherit the land.” (i.e. the land of Paradise) THE QURAN, 21: 105 This statement made in the Quran is recorded in detail in the Book of Psalms in the Bible: “The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell in it forever.” PSALMS, 37: 29 After the appearance of human beings, the process of civilization set in on the earth. In the first phase man was only able to build a primitive By Divine arrangement, in Paradise, justice will prevail in its most perfect form.