BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW Name of the Book: The Reality of Life Author: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Published by: Goodword Books, New Delhi First Published: 2007 ISBN: 93-91481-24-8 Pages: 50 Reviewed by: Faheem-ul-Islam This booklet is extraordinary in the way that it transforms thoughts and insists readers to ponder over the universe and on “Self”. The book starts with a question of whether man has been made for the world or vice versa. This makes a reader ponder over a very important question. Maulana had rightly answered this question in different ways to make our conscience aware of the happenings of life. As we all are known to the fact of being alive, the question is why we have been here and why without our own will we are being taken back to the place of origin? Why we have been sent to face the atrocities and difficulties without any benefit? These questions are addressed when we understand the creation plan of God. We are living in an era where things are accepted only when they are observed. We find it hard to believe in those things which we cannot observe. The terms like Paradise, post-death life, Hell, angels and other things are not visible or sensed by naked eyes, it becomes impossible to believe in them. Human life is eternal but God has divided it into two phases, one the life here on earth (pre-death) and the second one the life after death (post-death). God has created this plan to test human beings whether they will fit in the criteria of goodness to enter the second phase of life where there is no death. Human desires are uncountable and unsatisfied in the first phase of life as this world is just the trial room; you have to be obedient to the superpower in this world.