MAN
Spirit of Islam, June 2016, p. 38
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
Whenever a person experiences unpleasantness in the world, it happens so that a person may take right lessons from it so that he is reminded of the reality, that the present world is the world of trial. Nobody can find a comfortable life here. Man ought to take lessons from negative experiences of the world. He must awaken the consciousness in himself that in this limited world he cannot achieve his desired life. That he has to seek his desired life in the next life span of the unlimited world. In such a situation, the right lesson of unpleasant experiences is that man remembers the next world of Paradise. He awakens the thinking in himself that “let me not suffer in the Hereafter that which I have suffered in this world.” Successful is he, who has realized the eternal world in this temporary world; one who has discovered the secret of eternal success of the next life span in the failures of the present world. God has made this present world in accordance with such a plan that here every man lives in ‘toil’. On the other hand, the world after death will be free from all grief and only those who made themselves eligible for it will receive it. If observed in the light of this creation plan, the root of the entire human problem is that people want to make their Paradise in the world before death, whereas under the system of nature, such situations do not prevail here at all as may enable one to make his Paradise on earth. Just as no building can be erected either on sand dunes or marshy lands, similarly, in this present world, it is not possible for anyone to construct his luxury castle. And when man meets with failure under the law of nature, he falls prey to different types of negative reactions which wreak further havoc to his personality. The right way is that, man acknowledges this law of creation, and plans his life in accordance with it. This plan is just one—in this present world to strive to make oneself the desirable person; so that one may be held eligible for admission to Paradise, in the world after death. According to this creation scheme of nature, man has to be content in the world before death and in the world after death he will have Paradise in store for him. The right lesson of unpleasant experiences is that man remembers the next world of Paradise.

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