AN UNDISCOVERED REALITY

will happen to me when I leave this world and go to another unknown world? When his son died, these same thoughts were expressed by the wellknown singer Jagjit Singh (1941-2011), in these words: Chitthi na koi sandesh, jane wo kaun sa desh jahan tum chale gaye. (You left no letter and no message. No one knows the world to which you have gone.) These lines do not only represent the feelings of a father at the death of his son, rather it is the case of every human being—if he is alive, then this is his feeling about himself and if he has died, then these are the feelings of the relatives whom he has left behind. Almost all thinkers of history were obsessed with trying to explain this phenomenon. Everyone tried to discover the answer to this question. However, every answer failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to this phenomenon. In 1935 Alexis Carrel wrote a book Man, The Unknown. From another aspect the theme of this book was: Destination, The Unknown. Even today this destination has remained unknown and undiscovered. Having spent my entire life in trying to find an answer to this question led me to the discovery that the only rational answer has been given in the Quran. According to the Quranic explanation, man was born as an eternal creature. But, his life was divided into two parts: the pre-death period and the post-death period. Man’s life is like an iceberg. Only a tip of his life lies in the present world, the rest of it lies in the world Hereafter. Man should strive to his utmost to prepare himself for the next world, so that in the Hereafter he can achieve what he could not in the present world. The question of life after death concerns everyone, consciously in some cases and unconsciously in most cases. Answering this question is the greatest human service. Those who engage in this work will be held as the greatest benefactor of modern human history. Is there any taker for this task? o