TRAGEDY OF MAN
Spirit of Islam, September-october 2023, p. 37
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.
make this world a suffering-free zone. 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 of the unlimited world. In such a situation, the right lesson from unpleasant experiences is that man remembers the next world of Paradise. He awakens this 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 eternal world in this temporary world, one who has discovered the secret of eternal success of the next world 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, this is a reality that the world after death will be free from all grief and only the chosen people of God will receive it. If observed in the light of this creation plan, the root of all human problems is that the people want to build 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 the life of their dreams. And when man meets with failure under the law of nature, he falls prey to different types of negative reactions which wreak havoc to his personality. The right thing is that man acknowledges and accepts this law of creation and according to it, he plans his life. This plan is just one—to strive to develop in oneself the desirable traits in this present world, so that he may be held eligible for the admission in Paradise in the world after death. According to this creation plan of God, man has to be content in the world before death and as a result, in the world after death he has Paradise in store for him. o The root of all human problems is that the people want to build 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.

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