THE WORD OF GOD

According to this creation plan, the status of this world is of a preliminary selection ground. It is a place where those people are being selected who will prove by their words and deeds that they are worthy of being settled in the perfect world of Paradise. Once our body perishes, where exactly the life-force that leaves the body goes? The death of a human being is the death of his body. It is not the death of his soul. Human personality is changelessness in change. According to Islam, when a person dies, he leaves his material body and enters the next world where he could live eternally with a new and better body. Man being caught up in a whirlpool, where each philosophy claims to be the ultimate one, how can we be sure of a particular form or shape of life after this? The concept of whirlpool is an imaginative ideology devised by some philosophers. There is no such concept in the ideology of life presented by Islam. Islam says that it is not that all human souls are being gathered like a whirlpool in a state of perplexity and confusion. According to Islam, every person has an individuality. Every person has his own unique existence. According to one’s words and deeds, a person is developing his personality, which may be either good or bad. This personality development is being recorded. Based on this record, he shall receive good or bad outcome in the Hereafter. If this is not the real face of Islam, then what real Islam is? Islamic ideology of life is different from those presented in philosophy and other existing religions. Islamic ideology of life is based wholly on the principle of test. It means the present world is a testing ground. This is a place to develop one’s personality. Here, man is given freedom to pass through various experiences and thereby prepare himself. He is expected to respond positively to negative situations, even in untoward situations; he should prove to be a person of lofty morals; he should remain unaffected by fleeting emotions and concentrate on his future; he should disentangle himself from the spurs of the moment and live in the eternal realities; despite his freedom, he should subjugate his ego before God; instead of leading a self-oriented life, he should lead a God-oriented life; instead of exerting his energy to build his world here, he should make the building of the Hereafter his target.